Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Charles Dickens. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Charles Dickens. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Thứ Năm, 22 tháng 4, 2010

11th Circuit Cites Bleak House!


In a case involving discrimination against black Birmingham fire fighters that has been before the 11th Circuit innumerable times over its 30-year history, the Court name checks Charles Dickens:
see also CHARLES DICKENS, BLEAK HOUSE 4–5 (Pollard & Moss 1884) (“[The case] drones on. This . . . suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. . . . Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties . . . without knowing how or why . . . . [It] still drags its dreary length before the court . . . .”).
I love this, but how can you bracket and insert "[The case]" and not actually reference Jarndyce and Jarndyce?

The case name has to be one of the more famous in all literature, no?

It's like replacing Atticus Finch with "[Counsel for Defendant]."

Otherwise nicely done.

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