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Julian Assange is being held at Belmarsh, Britain’s most secure and infamous prisons, and crushed by judicial procedure. But, as Ithaka shows, in his supporters, he has some vestigial reminders of a life outside, writes Binoy Kampmark.

“Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is where you’re destined for.” 1.P. Cavafy, trans. Edmund Keeley John Shipton,

Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is where you’re destined for. — C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1975), trans. Edmund Keeley https://youtu.be/Gs0cKFeRko0 John Shipton, despite his size, glides with insect-like grace across surfaces. He moves with a hovering sense, a holy man with message and meaning. As Julian Assange’s father, he