We attended a moving memorial service earlier this month. It was the first time we had sat up in the balcony seats, a bird's eye view for a change. Of course there was a piper who played a lament and the singing of Glengarry My Home. The sun shone brightly on a cemetery that was a blaze of colour with all the flowers at the gravestones.Just finished reading an article entitled 'The origin of Jarndyce and Jarndyce' by Gary Watt. Professor Watt is a popular law lecturer at the University of Warwick in the UK. The author compares the plot of Bleak House by Charles Dickens to the Grimms' fairy tale of 'Jorinda and Jorindel'. Guess which story has the happy ending? Professor Watt quotes Aristotle who spoke out for the virtue of resisting our personal rights and entitilements. In modern English it is called equity, the true end of justice.
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