Professor Simon Stern
An Antiquated Doctrine was slowly and determinedly creeping into desuetude. Just as it was entering the home stretch, and preparing to park itself in that comfortable location, a Sage Law Professor arrested its progress and, holding it up to the light, gleefully announced that it was consistent with, and indeed integrally related to, numerous essential principles that run through the law.
The doctrine, startled to learn of its many relations, asked if any of them were enjoying the health and vigour whose lack it had so long regretted.
The professor was taken aback in turn by the grossly irrelevant and fundamentally incoherent nature of the question. He recoiled for a moment, but then recognized an opportunity to give a lecture on the sempiternity of the basic tenets of the common law, as well as their friends and relations.
However, the doctrine, taking advantage of the professor’s temporary hesitation, had already hied itself away to form an alliance with a Highly Counterintuitive Theory.
