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One of the great law teachers of the previous
generation was Karl Llewellyn who taught a
long time at Columbia and ended his teaching
career at the University of Chicago. He had
a famous lecture which he gave to entering
students at Columbia called 'The Bramble
Bush,' and it started out with this little poem:
There was a man in our town
and he was wondrous wise
He jumped into a bramble bush
and scratched out both his eyes
And when he found that he was blind,
with all his might and maine,
He jumped into another one,
and scratched them in again.
The law is somewhat like that. You may
remember when you sat as a first year student
being called upon for the first time and with
the feeling as the semester wore on,
that perhaps you had scratched out both
your eyes. But if you jumped back into the
bramble bush of the law, you found
that eventually eyesight came back and
you began to get some vision.
I would rather guess that probably is
an ongoing process. There are days when
you still go to the office with the feeling
that you're moving into a bramble bush,
and yet if you jump back in again, ultimately,
you will find the solution to your problem.
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