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A Lesson From Trollope For Counselors At Law, Thomas L. Shaffer
A Lesson From Trollope For Counselors At Law, Thomas L. Shaffer
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This article is about the process by which a person makes up his mind. In literature, the making up of a character's mind is a stage on which an author lets you know about his people and about his time. An example is Huckleberry Finn deciding whether to report Jim, his companion and a runaway slave. I propose to consider another example of a literary character making up his mind-the story of Septimus Harding and the sinecure, in The Warden, a quaint Victorian ecclesiastical tale by Anthony Trollope.
Lawyers spend hours helping their clients make up their minds. The process …