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Eric Middletons outward life is comfortable, mundane, safe and not going anywhere important. For much of his working day he attempts to cope with the twentieth century. He thinks himself into wild imaginations, drifts into reflective abstractions and tries out intricate daydreams and trips of fantasy. He seems to occupy two lives, two minds. When he wins a huge amount of money, a breathtaking opportunity confronts him; a parallel life, an alternative life, a different life. The plan to keep his wealth a secret leads him into new experiences which challenge his intrinsic weaknesses. He embarks on a cathartic and disastrous path towards his own chaos, and his Faustian failings lead to catastrophe and a shocking climax to his journey.
This book asks "How can legal doctrine be turned into filmic art?" By "legal doctrine" Stanley Fish does not mean the sonorous abstractions that usually accompany the self-presentation of law—Justice, Equity, Equality, Liberty, Autonomy, and the like. Rather he has in mind the specific rules and procedures invoked and analyzed by courts on the way to declaring a decision—lawyer/client confidentiality, the distinction between interdicted violence and the violence performed by the legal system, the interplay of positive law and laws rooted in morality, the difference between civilian law and military law, the death penalty, the admissibility of different forms of evidence. In the movies he...
Thomas Gleason (1607-1686) married Susanna Page, and emigrated before 1642 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, moving about 1654/1655 to Cambridge, and in 1658 to Charlestown, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Missouri, Kansas, California and elsewhere. Name was spelled "Leeson" in early records.
John Denman was born 1591 in Retford, Nottingham, England. He married Judith Stoughton of Surrey, England sometime prior to 1621. They were the parents of one known son and one daughter. John died 1623 in England. Judith immigrated to America from Gravesend, England with her children aboard the ship "Dorset" and landed in Boston in the year 1635. They settled in the Salem Colony of Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Ohio and elsewhere.
He survived the horrors of the Civil War. She endured the long wait. And after the last man had fallen, only one walked the road back to their South Carolina home. With the economy of the South in ruin and hope shattered in the void of silenced hearts, Will and Carol Ann headed westward in search of a new life, to find their lost dreams and escape the demons left behind. Beneath the crack of thunder under a gray Texas sky, fate would alter Carol Ann's life in a way she never imagined. That moment in destiny would stir the seeds of love and deception, changing the lives of those living on the Double-M ranch and beyond. This is the story of a woman of strength, of the people in her life, of the bonds of human relationships, and all that is threatened by the Black River Crossing. Take my hand and follow this young woman and those who come into and out of her life. Open your eyes to those who call out for the understanding they seek to ease their souls. Come with me; bring Carol Ann home again.