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===The varieties of legal eagle=== | |||
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/ They baffle and cushion it, overlaying so many contradictory figures over the bare propositions that they are unrecognisable, and impotent. | |||
===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]] | ||