১০ ফেব্রুয়ারী, ২০০৬

"Writing palindromes ... It's like the opposite of a guitar."

Says comedian and former NYU law student Demetri Martin. About quitting law school, he says:
The first week, I remember thinking: "OK, this cool. I get it: You analyze the case, find the issues, apply the rule, draw a conclusion. Cool, I get this." But that was week one. Then, at week two, I was like, "That's it?" And by week three I was like: "This sucks. I'm bored. This is so detail-oriented. I'm not a detail person."

Yikes. Me, I'm in decade three.

১২টি মন্তব্য:

reader_iam বলেছেন...

...
I palindrome I (I palindrome I)
And I am a snake head eating (snake head)
The head on the opposite side (snake head)
I palindrome I (manonam)...


(excerpt from They Might Be Giant's "I Palindrome I"

P_J বলেছেন...

...
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

...
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?

...
Oh, no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies -- run!

...
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog


From "Bob," Weird Al Yankovic's tribute to Bob Dylan

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

Dave: Did you read the story at the link? The link is there for a reason.

Jen Bradford বলেছেন...

Who comes up with these?

Debate with girl last; if it's all right, I wet a bed.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

Are you people looking for an antidote to the guitar? I don't get it!

Simon Kenton বলেছেন...

Probably waxing cancrine is groupie saltpetre, but I did once attract a female by using the word "boustrophedonic." She was more your polyhistor climber type than your stage-set ululator, though.

Simon Kenton বলেছেন...

Incidentally, I loved the idea that a writer of palindromes disclaims being a detail person.

xwfifw - a former wife who abandoned her family to write palidromes.

J. Cricket বলেছেন...

Demetri is right about the repetitive nature of law education. There is no reasonable explanation why law school is three years long. The skills are all taught in the first semester.

So, the comic figured this out in three weeks. And you are still doing it after three decades. Then again, you blog so much that you can't be reading and anayzing all that many cases!

Ruth Anne Adams বলেছেন...

Am I hearing decade three buyer's remorse?

It could be your law-prof scam working on your conscience.

Maxine Weiss বলেছেন...

Back to my former question: Would anybody choose to study this stuff if career/job/income weren't a factor?

I think not!

Peace, Maxine

Adam বলেছেন...

Study this stuff? Absolutely.

Practice it? That's a different question.

reader_iam বলেছেন...

Wow! I responded a couple of hours ago to the comment you made about guitars and antidotese.

My browser?

A broader issue?

Or was the comment the problem (can't imagine why ... of all of them; this of all others would be the problem?) and it was deleted?