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...hard to recognize Turow from his selfportrayal as an anxiety-ridden student in One L. One indication of change is his attitude toward academics. When asked about his 3L courses, Turow bursts into genuine laughter: "Who, me? Courses? The second and third years," he explains, "tend to fade into some kind of boredom, distraction and distance from school. Course material seems much less difficult, and students suddenly stop working as hard...
Despite the academic pressues that lead many law students to consider 1L the worst year of their lives, Turow says in some respects he prefers 1L to the later years. "What's exciting to me about the first year," he says, "is the extent to which legal problems tended to be talked about as points involving conflicting ideals. That kind of talk is stifled in the second and third years; you get that one day in your corporations class in 2L, when your professor makes the perfectly apparent argument that you can't have corporate directors thinking about anything besides...
...Turow's nostalgia for the legal philosophizing that goes on in 1L may reveal something about his approach to law in general. Arguments over conflicting ideals proceed on a highly intellectual level, one that Turow clearly finds stimulating. There seems to be something of this abstracted viewpoint in the way Turow discusses his future with the U.S. attorney's office as well...
...book Turow wrote of coming to the Law School to "meet my enemy," his term for the elements of his personality he disrespects and finds ugly. On this subject, too, he speaks with a disquieting detachment...
...description evokes a real enemy, distinct from Turow yet dealing within him. And while he talks of confronting ethical issues and accepting responsibility for his actions, his enemy metaphor almost seems to excuse ugly behavior...