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===''Contrahendo'' as a [[Knee slide|knee-slide]]=== | ===''Contrahendo'' as a [[Knee slide|knee-slide]]=== | ||
In its baffling, obscurant esoterism, ''culpa in contrahendo'' captures neatly what [[Legal eagle|legal eagles]] most love, and everyone else most despairs, about their place in the world. | In its baffling, obscurant esoterism, ''culpa in contrahendo'' captures neatly what [[Legal eagle|legal eagles]] most love, and everyone else most despairs, about their sainted place in the world. | ||
“I don’t know what that means. Nor do I care. But life is too short, and the foreground too full of more pressing questions for me to wrap my tiny mind around it might mean in the dim, purblind future of my commercial relationship,” a [[muggle]] will think, “But I am no fool. I can see this smug so-and-so ''does'' care, and isn’t going to let this go, and this godforsaken [[negotiation]] will carry on until he has his knee-slide.” | “I don’t know what that means. Nor do I care. But life is too short, and the foreground too full of more pressing questions for me to wrap my tiny mind around it might mean in the dim, purblind future of my commercial relationship,” a [[muggle]] will think, “But I am no fool. I can see this smug so-and-so ''does'' care, and isn’t going to let this go, and this godforsaken [[negotiation]] will carry on until he has his knee-slide.” | ||