Always be commenting
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“A-B-C. A: always. B: Be. C: Commenting. Always be commenting! Always be commenting! A-I-D-A: A: Always. I: In the name of. D: Doubt. A: Avoidance. Always: Am I commenting? In: Am I in the office? Doubt: could someone, however petrified, paranoid, or beyond the practical reach of modern common sense, miscontrue? We are talking about judges, fellows. You are writing for JUDGES. Avoidance: Have I avoided it? Can I avoid it? Did you avoid it? No, Moss, you just stuck your goddamn foot in it. I know you did, because I smell your dogshit plain English provincial conveyancer dreck. You comment or you hit the bricks! You got the prospects frettin’ in; you think they came in to get their asses out of the rain? Guy doesn't walk on the lot unless he wants to cover his ass. Sitting out there waiting for you to give him something to worry about! Are you gonna do it? A little “belts and suspenders”, a shrug of the shoulders, a no bright line test? Are you attorney enough to take it?”
- —Alec Barwin in Glengarry Glenmarkup