(np - Melville - was Re: The People's History & the Cold War ) equity? who ever heard of that?

[Michael Bailey]

> and by the time he wrote Bartleby, Chancery had been folded into the
> NY court system, and was becoming a fond memory, like smoking a
> cigarette and blowing smoke rings while reading the paper at a lunch
> counter...
>

and chancery was never a perfect solution anyway, just like smoking at
a restaurant isn't absolutely necessary to have a perfectly wonderful
lunch

>  In fact, perhaps the law has to some extent become more
> accommodating, and the numerous factions of civic-minded people who
> volunteer their time and money, including a great deal of pro bono
> work on the part of the very class of lawyers from whom our narrator
> was drawn.
>

sentence fragment!


simply having a wonderful Christmas time