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[[File:JC tombstone.jpg|thumb|4050|center|I told you I was ill]] | [[File:JC tombstone.jpg|thumb|4050|center|I told you I was ill]] | ||
}}I’d like to think a fitting epitaph, literally and figuratively, for the [[JC]] as and when he finally shuffles off this mortal coil. Should anyone care enough to have a whip-round for a [[tombstone]], I’d be good with that | }}I’d like to think a fitting epitaph, literally and figuratively, for the [[JC]] as and when he finally shuffles off this mortal coil. Look, in our [[new normal]] we may never meet each other again, even if we all live to ripe maturities, so Should anyone care enough to have a whip-round for a [[tombstone]], I’d be good with that. | ||
In the service of [[statutory interpretation|statutory]] and [[contractual interpretation]], the directive that one should afford a [[fair, large and liberal]] interpretation to a gobbet of text — especially an elegant, sparse one — is an entreaty [[Non mentula esse|not to be a penis]] — to not go out of your way to imagine phantoms lurking in its sombre cadence; not wilfully to make out the outline of succubi and incubi in the mundane contiguities of its benign glyphs and serifs; not to freight it an awkward but well-meant [[subordinate clause]] with absurd, paranoid, counter-intuitive or point-defeating meanings — temptations which, as we all know, many commercial lawyers find tremendously hard, in their heart of hearts, to resist. | |||
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*[[Ejusdem generis]] | |||
*[[Non mentula esse]] | *[[Non mentula esse]] | ||