This was ridiculous. The last thing he needed now was to be killed. It would require all sorts of explanations. They didn't hand out new bodies just like that; they always wanted to know what you'd done with the old one. It was like trying to get a new pen from a particularly bloody-minded stationery department.
'This sentence is so convoluted,' he wrote, 'and so riddled with adjectives, as to be impenetrable to lawyer and lay reader alike. It is among the worst sentences I've encountered in all my [25] years of reading legal materials.' That's saying something, let me tell you. But, as he quickly admitted, he had spoken too soon: 'I was too hasty in concluding that the first sentence of this judgment was notably awful,' he wrote later in the same post. 'The very next sentence is even worse, surpassing the first in verbosity, obfuscation, flabbiness, meandering length, and analytical ineptitude.' He was not wrong.