research is fun ~ legal mulumbo is not

30 days and counting: still working on the doctor's scene, took a break and wrote a sorta-semi flashback thing that i will probably keep though i am hard-pressed to define it.

answers to some of the burning questions i posited earlier, namely: 1. who paid the bill? and 2. whose firm was Poppet working for?

"An accused before any court-martial is entitled to free legal representation by military defense counsel, and can also retain civilian counsel at his or her expense." while this is part of the modern definition, let's presume the same was true then as well (it would have to be ~ i can think of no other way to do it).

Poppet was more or less obliged to take the case when Burnett approached him because he was (drumroll please) working in the city as defense counsel for the military courts (see, it pays to reread the same source five times ~ you pick up on little sentences that slip through the cracks now and then!).

so as a civilian (which he was then) he had a military contract ~ the government paid his bill. interestingly, that also means they were also paying the bill for his witnesses.

( some particulars, but not many )

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man, i am just fragged from the week. i could fall asleep right now (like in the palm of a hand).



and if you think that's cute,
check this out: sleepy sloth

late night second thoughts ~

wrote 1,951 words.

don't. like. hardly. any. of. them.

the line about the rhododendrons was okay:

rhododendrons and buckwheat cakes as big as dinner plates; the sound of the Sabbath choir singing Jesus makes my heart rejoice, I’m his sheep, and know His voice.

but otherwise i fear another false start. too too chatty. blither blither blah blah. i know i can cut when all is said and done, but the whole feeling is wrong. there are moments:

Poppet turned the handle of the same cup of cold coffee 45 degrees every few minutes, just to look occupied.

but overall the effect is too "staged". (i.e. now let's have that discussion about jurisdiction because we have to cram it in somewhere! ) and i'm still not 100% comfortable with some of the peripheral characters about whom i know so little. especially having them carry big scenes (i fear i've made Clampitt sort of an intolerant snob and that's not really fair).

meh.

i'm gonna go work on it.

how'd it get to be so late?

: o p