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MattBurkeFirstEssay 13 - 19 Apr 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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< | Writing about thinking about thinking about life, death, the law, and law-studentry | >
> | On the law and the practice of law studentry | | | -- By MattBurke - 02 Mar 2015 | | | “Yes,” says the law student. “The law can be in that regard very much like Goya.” | |
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> | 2. In which the role of the law and law studentry in the law student's past is unearthed | | | First, old memories visit the law student. With his mother at her office, he’s bored. A man offers to shake his hand. They shake. After, the man gives the law student a piece of candy. The law student’s mother explains: “He’s a partner.” This is the law student’s earliest memory of that word. When the law student hears the word again—this time in its general usage—he experiences the disorientation common to learning children: “Partner” means “man with authority and a distant affect.” How can it also mean “companion”? | | | Third, the student recalls a trial, the boy who shot up the student’s high school. The student remembers his parents’ divorce proceedings and his great-grandmother’s will—the two silver bars devised to the student’s mother when the student was four years old. Those, he thinks, are not the law. They are alternating weekends, silver bars, and an incarcerated boy, who, many years ago, was my friend, and who, when last I saw him, wore an orange jumpsuit, now an incarcerated man. | |
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In which life and death are applied to the law and law-studentry | | | Thinking about thinking about the law and law-studentry is useful in this way: he who understands me easily recognizes these thoughts as senseless, when he has read through them, on them, over them. |
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