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}}We are eternally grateful to Ms Van der Leyen and the magnificent [[legal eagle|legal eagles]] in the employ of Astrazeneca for making plain the torture we commercial lawyers endure daily  — torture of prose, patience, and common sense — as we quietly, diligently birth commercial legal agreements that shelter an ungrateful public from harm.  No-one banged pots for ''us''.
}}We are eternally grateful to Ms Van der Leyen and the magnificent [[legal eagle|legal eagles]] in the employ of Astrazeneca for making plain the torture we commercial lawyers endure daily  — torture of prose, patience, and common sense — as we quietly, diligently birth commercial legal agreements that shelter an ungrateful public from harm.  No-one banged pots for ''us''.


These ''eminence grises'' have, too, opened up a new face in the rock-face of [[Epistemology|epistemological]] doubt that besets my learned friends and I. You would think, after all this time, that particular mountain would be tamed by now, wouldn’t you? To be sure, mostly it is — the pitch has a smooth, [[entropic]] flatness suitable only for skilfully tedious [[legal eagle]]s to nest in.  
These ''eminence grises'' have, too, opened up a new route on the rock-face of [[Epistemology|epistemological]] doubt that besets my learned friends and I. You would think, after all this time, that particular mountain would be tamed by now, wouldn’t you? To be sure, mostly it is — the pitch has a smooth, [[entropic]] flatness suitable only for skilfully tedious [[legal eagle]]s to nest in.  


So this is special: this is like finding a new, hitherto unseen ''direttissima''; a hidden chimney; a traverse of the gods. Exit cracks leading, we hope, to the summit of Mount [[Certainty]] and not a death bivouac.  
So this is special: this is like finding a new, hitherto unseen ''direttissima''; a hidden chimney; a traverse of the gods. Exit cracks leading, we hope, to the summit of Mount [[Certainty]] and not a death bivouac.