[lbo-talk] Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 12 06:10:42 PDT 2005


Michael Pollak wrote:


>On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Mark Bennett wrote:
>
>> > 1) Practicing lawyers do tend to be short on poetry.
>>
>>Wallace Stevens?
>
>Actually he was in insurance. But you probably remembered that
>right after you sent this :o)

But he was a lawyer who worked for The Hartford - "the best surety bond man in the country," it was said of him. Another lawyer-poet (and long-time LBO subscriber), Lawrence Joseph, told me recently that surety bond lawyers have the reputation of being wild and crazy guys. Who knew?

Doug



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