Victoria Pynchon: Like a Virgin

[Robin Landseadel]

On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> In reality it was where the first electricity grid was.
>
> In AtD, it is the HQ of the Vibe Corp.

Looking up Pynchon & Co. references to the Edison/GE company [Pynchco  
had it's fingers in the early electrical pie] and the creation of our  
electrical grid, ran across this blog of Victoria Pynchon, who seems  
to have some of the same stuff in her blood:

	If intellectual property had a theme song it would have to be

	"Like a Virgin."

	Why?

	Because IP is all about "the very first time," the "aha" moment,

	the creative spark that gives rise to previously undreamed

	imaginings.The restrictions of "how we've always done things"

	 fall away and the numbing repetition of days become vibrant.

	 The rest, of course, is work.  Trial and error.  Success.

	Failure.Rearranging the disaligned.  Completion.

	Then the suits arrive. That's us, the lawyers.

	In honor of the moment of creation at the root of every

	intellectual property dispute, this week's Blawg Review No. 171

	gives you the great virgins of history. . .



	. . .  Attorneys are often verbose,
	Penning legal complaints grandiose,
	Writing hundreds pages
	And setting off rages
	From those who find wordiness gross.

	But Judge Leighton showed major restraint
	When he ruled on an endless complaint.
	In a limerick poem
	He said, redo this tome
	Cuz in 8(a) compliance it ain’t!  . . .

http://www.ipadrblog.com/articles/authors/victoria-pynchon-1/