By M. R. James
The one annotated version of M. R. James's writings at the moment on hand, count number Magnus and different Ghost tales comprises the full first volumes of James's ghost tales, Ghost tales of an Antiquary and extra Ghost tales of an Antiquary. those volumes are either the fruits of the nineteenth-century ghost tale culture and the foundation for a lot of the easiest twentieth-century paintings during this style. integrated during this assortment are such landmark stories as "Count Magnus," set within the wilds of Sweden; "Number 13," a particular story a few haunted resort room; "Casting the Runes," a richly complicated story of sorcery that served because the foundation for the vintage horror movie Curse of the Demon; and "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad," the most scary stories in literature. The appendix contains numerous infrequent texts, together with "A evening in King's university Chapel," James's first identified ghost story.
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With the advent of the computer, the task has been rendered even easier. Gone are the days when a trip to a distant law library was required, not to mention the sheer strength to lug fifty or sixty pounds of books to a reading table. All that’s needed now is that little coded citation, or the name of a case or the number of a statute, or even a particularly vexing phrase lifted verbatim from the language of that statute. Depraved indifference to human life, for example. So Jaywalker could be an armchair researcher right in his own apartment, allowing himself snacks, bathroom breaks and even an occasional check of a ball-game score whenever he liked.
It is only the unusually erudite trial judge, or the politically ambitious one, who bothers to commit his rulings to 56 Joseph Teller paper. ” It is, for the most part, at the appellate level that the writing takes place. And it takes place only if there’s been a conviction after trial. If there’s been an acquittal, the prohibition against double jeopardy prevents the prosecution from appealing. What’s sauce for the goose isn’t always sauce for the gander. The defendant who’s been found guilty below is permitted as a matter of right to appeal his conviction to a higher court, and from there to a succession of even higher courts, all the way up to—in the words of one of Jaywalker’s phrase-making jailhouse lawyers—“the Supremes,” if the judges of those courts deem the issue or issues involved sufficiently worthy of their attention.
Which didn’t sound like much, once he heard himself run down the list out loud. But she seemed to think otherwise. “I’m impressed,” she said, sipping a martini. Both of her nipples were covered this time, but only because they were in a restaurant. An hour earlier that had decidedly not been the case. ” had shouted the devil on his right shoulder, who was not only louder and far more persuasive, but apparently Jewish. ” And so it had come to pass that once again Jaywalker had succumbed to human frailty, primal instinct and Amanda Drake.