Space-tedium continuum
The universe of legal construction. The design space in which all legal eagles fly. We all instinctively recognise space, and fill it without a second thought — a legal eagle deplores a vacuum, as the truism has it — and the information revolution has put into our hands the tools to wallpaper the very cosmos with words.
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But the relationship between space and tedium has not, until recently, been explored. Pioneering jurisprudo-physicist Otto Büchstein first proposed that it was not space, nor time, but tedium that was the constant in the legal universe, and his paper — six hundred and forty-three pages of it, needless to say, five hundred and ninety-seven of which were assumptions and qualifications — has opened a number of new subfields in the cosmology of the law.
One follows Büchstein’s own hypothesis, which he derived from his earlier paper, that space-tedium is not flat, as was traditionally supposed, but twisted into other, unobserved dimensions of torpor. This phenomenon, which he called the carvature of space-tedium, was first observed in a series of concatenated carve-outs and carve-ins to the professional indemnity insurance policy he was obliged to take out for his own practice.