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. . . As of today, under the title A FROLIC OF HIS OWN (Joel v.
Morrison, 1834, 6 C.&P. 501, 172 Eng.Rep.1338) the entire 600+ pages
of turmoil is in the hands of Poseidon/Simon & Schuster in the form
of corrected galleys waiting to be cut & bound, packaged & remaindered
over the months to come (publication date probably January '94) & thank
the Lord to have it out of my hands. Quite contrary to the received opinion of legal language as purposely obfuscatory I had come to admire its tortuous (no pun intended) struggles for precision & contingency ("holding these rights in perpetuity throughout the world and elsewhere"), was handed Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad &, once hooked, on to Prosser & thence a gift of every human foible in AMJUR's all 84 vols. till finally a couple of years ago I soberd up to the fact that I was writing a novel of civilization & its discontents not a compendium of western law & finally surfaced a few months ago to my great relief & that of those around me albeit with decisions never to be reached & opinions never to be written. Which may be just as well. At any rate I hope you will find the final product entertaining & perhaps even, as Conrad had it, with that little bit of truth we'd forgot to ask for. Yours, |
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