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Eagles fall into two broad categories: first, those who ''love'' language, wish they could have more respectable way of making a living out it, and who might have done just that they not got waylaid by the easy lucre one can pull together quickly, by accepting a training contract at Allen & Overy. It is like a debilitating drug. They keep plying you with more of the stuff, on one condition: you limit your lexical playground to legal documents. This is a constraint, but like all constraints can propel and juice a truly great artiste. | Eagles fall into two broad categories: first, those who ''love'' language, wish they could have more respectable way of making a living out it, and who might have done just that they not got waylaid by the easy lucre one can pull together quickly, by accepting a training contract at Allen & Overy. It is like a debilitating drug. They keep plying you with more of the stuff, on one condition: you limit your lexical playground to legal documents. This is a constraint, but like all constraints can propel and juice a truly great artiste. | ||
The others are those who ''despise'' their language: they mistrust it, they fear it, they don’t understand it, they don’t trust themselves with it: these people have devoted their lives to neutering language | The others are those who ''despise'' their language: they mistrust it, they fear it, they don’t understand it, they don’t trust themselves with it: these people have devoted their lives to neutering language. They regard themselves not as artists but bomb-disposal experts. They see words as incendiary devices, which they must baffle and cushion, to prevent loss of life or limb to adjacent bystanders. They have discovered the best way of cancelling clausal potency is to overlaying ones expressions with so many contradictory figures over the bare propositions that they are unrecognisable, skeletal traces, and impotent for anything but a harmless [[plouffe]]. | ||
===As a badge of honour=== | ===As a badge of honour=== | ||
[[File:Negotiate me.png|200px|left|thumb|center|Eagle Squad insignia]] | [[File:Negotiate me.png|200px|left|thumb|center|Eagle Squad insignia]] | ||