http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/10/at-a-loss-for-words.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/10/at-a-loss-for-words.html/comment-page-1#comment-65867 A.J. Sutter Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:33:22 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=21187#comment-65867 Not at all. As Thomas Mann (Nobel 1929) pointed out, "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for everyone else" ("[E]in Schriftsteller ein Mann ist, dem das Schreiben schwerer fällt als allen anderen Leuten"). <i>Schriftsteller</i> often has a particularly literary <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schriftsteller" rel="nofollow">connotation</a>, so law profs perhaps tend to be exempt from this disability. Not at all. As Thomas Mann (Nobel 1929) pointed out, “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for everyone else” (“[E]in Schriftsteller ein Mann ist, dem das Schreiben schwerer fällt als allen anderen Leuten”). Schriftsteller often has a particularly literary connotation, so law profs perhaps tend to be exempt from this disability.

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