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...form of sex and tobacco from the rank-and-file riffraff. It is intensely snobbish. "Crashers" (burglars) will not talk to pimps. Prestige is based on length of term, and a prison peerage goes to anyone who has served on Devil's Island or Cayenne (the now extinct French penal colonies...
...basic concern of Williams' is the trend away from criminal law. "Trial lawyers are a vanishing breed," he says, "and criminal trial lawyers are well nigh extinct." Top lawyers in firms are concerned only with money matters, he believes, and much of the blame rests with the law schools themselves. One survey he cites shows that only seven out of 502 students polled after the first year of law school were favorably disposed to criminal law. For Williams, it has become a mission to travel among law schools, telling students to use himself as an example and skip the corporation...
...formations, or marble walls, or fossils of extinct animals that make such torture delicious. To a caver it's climbed, the caver'll still be exploring; and as long as extraterrestial opportunities are limited, caving is the one chance anyone then will have. Every weekend, someone opens up a mile of new passage somewhere. At best guess, only a tenth of all the American caves have been discovered, and these are not fully explored...
...always knowing that war is not forever and that we live by growing things." Surviving with him are a few sempervivums, or everlivings-among them the European houseleek, sometimes known as "hen and chickens"-a proper plant for this chickenhearted man. Another surviving plant is the Sempervivum melintese, thought extinct for a hundred years and now, like the hero, "resurrected in captivity...
...world of Samuel Beckett, the entire machinery of existence seems to be grinding to a halt. Words leave his characters' mouths between pauses and in slow motion, as if speech were becoming extinct. The scenery is either fossilized, the bare gnarled tree of Waiting For Godot, or funereal, the ashcans of Endgame, the urns of Play, the mound of earth in Happy Days.'Man is maimed and buried alive in these props. One critic has called a Beckett hero a perverse Cartesian: I stink, therefore I am. Actually, the degradation and mutilation of the body are Beckett...