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Must have been all those years of tennis and
golf He mulled this for a moment"Still, I had
both madness and youth on my sideI had laid
hands on him by the time the posse burst inIt
took half a dozen lawyers to haul me off him, and
I tore his Paul Stuart suit-coat in halfStraight
down the back He shook his head slowly back and
forth"You should have heard that hijo de puta
hollerAnd you should have heard meThe maddest
shit you can imagine, including accusations -
shouted at the top of my lungs - about his
preference for ladies' underwearAnd like the
thing about the security guard's father, I think
that may well have been trueFunny, no? And,
crazy or not, valued legal mind or not, that was
the end of my career at Findum, Fuckum, and
Forgettum
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"I'm sorry," I said
"De nada, all for the best," he said in a
businesslike tone"As the lawyers were wrestling
me out of his office - which was trashed - I
pitched a fitThe grandest of grand malsIf
there hadn't been a legal aide handy with some
medical training, I might have died right there
As it was, I was out cold for three daysAnd hey,
I needed the sleep
He opened the folder and handed me three X-rays
They weren't as good as the cortical slices
produced by an MRI, but I had an informed layman's
understanding of what I was looking at, thanks to
my own experience
"There it is, Edgar, a thing many claim does not
exist: the brain of a lawyerHave any pictures
like these yourself?"
"Let's put it this way: if I'd wanted to fill a
scrapbook"But who'd want a scrapbook of shots
like theseDo you see the slug?"
"Y