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ciroccojTonight we read the part of Deathly Hallows where the Big Reveal re. Snape happens. The part that's been picked apart as trite, ridiculous, childish, waaay obvious, illogical, yadda yadda yadda. Criticisms that I agree with, in part.
Justin? Eight year old kid who hasn't read all the detailed literary analyses, pre-Deathly Hallows fanfics, discussion board arguments, and all that? Literally sat there with his mouth hanging open for almost the whole chapter. And broke in several times in total disbelieving delight at how "everything came together like a puzzle!!" And may have a bit of trouble going to sleep now, because his mind is totally whirling at how brilliant and unexpected and totally cool the whole thing was.
And I'm sitting there thinking, you know, everything doesn't all come together. There's hangy bits here and there. And it's so heavy-handed in parts. And there's wince spots where I think, Damn, I would've written that better.
But it wasn't written for me. It wasn't written for English Lit students. Or obsessed grownup fans. It was written for kids like Justin. And it's not the best children's book out there by any stretch of the imagination, but still, IMHO it's pretty damn good.
...a damn sight better than the crap I'm about to wade through now, that's for sure.
In addition to authorizing the court to award costs in relation to proceedings once the proceeding or the stage in the proceeding has concluded, the Rules also empower the court to direct that a party be required to post security for costs during the course of the proceeding, as a term of continuing with the prosecution of a proceeding (r. 56.01).
I'd rather read Rowling's trite simplicity any day. Sadly, Rowling will no doubt form absolutely no part of the bar exam. A tragedy for so, so many reasons.
::sigh::
Justin? Eight year old kid who hasn't read all the detailed literary analyses, pre-Deathly Hallows fanfics, discussion board arguments, and all that? Literally sat there with his mouth hanging open for almost the whole chapter. And broke in several times in total disbelieving delight at how "everything came together like a puzzle!!" And may have a bit of trouble going to sleep now, because his mind is totally whirling at how brilliant and unexpected and totally cool the whole thing was.
And I'm sitting there thinking, you know, everything doesn't all come together. There's hangy bits here and there. And it's so heavy-handed in parts. And there's wince spots where I think, Damn, I would've written that better.
But it wasn't written for me. It wasn't written for English Lit students. Or obsessed grownup fans. It was written for kids like Justin. And it's not the best children's book out there by any stretch of the imagination, but still, IMHO it's pretty damn good.
...a damn sight better than the crap I'm about to wade through now, that's for sure.
In addition to authorizing the court to award costs in relation to proceedings once the proceeding or the stage in the proceeding has concluded, the Rules also empower the court to direct that a party be required to post security for costs during the course of the proceeding, as a term of continuing with the prosecution of a proceeding (r. 56.01).
I'd rather read Rowling's trite simplicity any day. Sadly, Rowling will no doubt form absolutely no part of the bar exam. A tragedy for so, so many reasons.
::sigh::
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My Contracts teacher
Date: 2008-05-10 03:08 am (UTC)Re: My Contracts teacher
Date: 2008-05-11 09:43 pm (UTC)My Property prof always had interesting cases for his long essay questions. One of the ones for a previous year involved William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jonathan Frakes, and Patrick Stewart, on the set of Star Trek XXXI. Lots and lots of property issues in there. And at some point Stewart and Shatner became friends and Stewart, in a drunken moment of camaraderie, confessed to him that he'd always thought Shatner was "a talentless hack," but had now come to realise that he was an actor of "unparallelled dramatic depth," which caused Shatner to promise Stewart his Franklin Mint silver and ruby Enterprise NCC-1701 model after he died. But then there was a mishap while filming a scene on a clif, and Shatner promised it to Frakes instead if Frakes could save him. Frakes was so overcome with emotion that he let go of Shatner, who plummeted to his death. There's a vicious legal battle between Stewart, Frakes, and Nimoy, who was promised the ship in Shatner's will.
I believe the last question had to do with the victor of the legal battle getting rip-roaringly drunk once he got the little model, and speeding down the hotel corridors with the model while making whooshing sounds and occasional phaser fire noises. He trips and one of the rubies comes off and rolls into a heating vent, where it's discovered a few years later by a maintenance dude.
Damn, I loved my property prof. I don't remember what our own long case was about, but I seem to recall something about the cast of Master and Commander, and Russel Crowe becoming paranoid about other staff going into his area of the Captain's Set, and drawing some kind of line around it, and wanting to sue filming crew who trespassed? Something like that.
Re: My Contracts teacher
Date: 2008-05-15 01:05 am (UTC)And Russell Crowe turning into Les Nesman of WKRP!!! That's a classic.