Re: Sat In Your Lap

[j.fischer@mail.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Fischer)]

	I agree with Stuart C., my reading of "sat in your lap" is "conferred
on you without any effort on your part."

	This song expresses everything I was thinking about law school but
couldn't elucidate before I heard it.  Law school in the States relies on 
professors humiliating students by hammering them with psuedo-Socratic 
questions, supposedly to draw out from the student his knowledge of the law 
based on his existing sense of fair play.  Particularly in the first year
(one-L), this leads to dizzying alternations between thinking you know 
everything and more realistically knowing you know nothing.

	Yes, sometimes I think I'm king, and then I just begin.  And yes, 
sometimes I look around and see the process working for others and not for
me.  And yes, it seems like an endless pilgrammage or infinite ladder to 
climb.  Et cetera.

	Very few songs have ever blown me away this way, at least since I 
passed the target age for pop songs (in the womb, I think).

                                             - jeff

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