Fish principle

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The principle of legal drafting, which we attribute to Stanley Fish and his work How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One — the gist of which is, just keep going, don’t ever stop: you might as well enjoy yourself since in all likelihood you will be the only one who will ever read it — that there is only one bound to the possibilities of grammatical construction and that is at the short end: there is a definite minimum limit to a sentence, but no maximum, and it behoves one who is employed to manipulate language to do so as expansively as she can, deploying as many folds, crevices and fissures as possible, to allow other, similarly minded professionals, to make their own homes and livelihoods in that budding textual ecosystem.