Murder At the Watergate (2014)
“She’d come home early that day, leaving the gallery in the hands of a young assistant, an art history major at GW. Mac had taught that morning, and the experience hadn’t done anything for his customary pleasant disposition.
“They’re bright,” he told her after she’d delivered a platter of cheeses and two nonalcoholic beers to the terrace. “They wouldn’t have been admitted if they weren’t bright. But they don’t seem to get it.”
“Get what?”
“What law is really all about. They seem to want the law ...to conform to their thinking, support their views of life and society. But law can’t be what they want it to be. It’s what it is.”
She cocked her head, smiled, and patted his arm. “Remember what Swift said.”
“Jonathan Swift?”
“I learned it in law school. He said, ‘Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ ”
“I didn’t learn that in my law school.”
“Laws aren’t as black and white as you’d like them to be.”MoreLess
“They’re bright,” he told her after she’d delivered a platter of cheeses and two nonalcoholic beers to the terrace. “They wouldn’t have been admitted if they weren’t bright. But they don’t seem to get it.”
“Get what?”
“What law is really all about. They seem to want the law ...to conform to their thinking, support their views of life and society. But law can’t be what they want it to be. It’s what it is.”
She cocked her head, smiled, and patted his arm. “Remember what Swift said.”
“Jonathan Swift?”
“I learned it in law school. He said, ‘Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ ”
“I didn’t learn that in my law school.”
“Laws aren’t as black and white as you’d like them to be.”MoreLess
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