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The real trick is ensuring this can only ever become clear in the capable hands of a fellow [[legal eagle]]. God forbid your clients could ever work it out. | The real trick is ensuring this can only ever become clear in the capable hands of a fellow [[legal eagle]]. God forbid your clients could ever work it out. | ||
=== | ===Correspondence=== | ||
We have already | We have already heard from our American correspondents on this topic. | ||
“Is this not to unfairly malign our bacon?” one asks. “Do you not perhaps mean ‘spinach’?” | |||
Oh, no, it is your bacon. American bacon isn’t “bacon”. It is a ''fraud'' on the idea of bacon. | Oh, no, it is your bacon. American bacon isn’t “bacon”. It is a ''fraud'' on the idea of bacon. | ||
The thing about spinach is that most right-thinking people ''want'' spinach to disappear. The smaller spinach becomes before before you have to eat it, the better. One takes spinach as one does cod liver oil: out of the conviction that it is, in some astral way, doing some part of your physiognomy — or soul, or part of your being to which your conscious self has no access at all — some ''good''. Enough | The thing about spinach is that most right-thinking people ''want'' spinach to disappear. The smaller spinach becomes before before you have to eat it, the better. One takes spinach as one does cod liver oil: out of the conviction that it is, in some astral way, doing some part of your physiognomy — or soul, or part of your being to which your conscious self has no access at all — some ''good''. Enough to offset the visceral displeasure involved in earning that virtue.<ref>I should mention that the [[JC]] is quite partial to spinach. But he speaks, as always, not for himself but for the great silent mass of his readership.</ref> | ||
This is emphatically not so for bacon. Quite the opposite in fact. | This is emphatically not so for bacon. Quite the opposite, in fact. | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[U.S. Attorney]] | *[[U.S. Attorney]] | ||