The Memory Palace
Radiolab
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The Bull, the Defendant, the Gang of Robbers
Hundreds of people sat in bleachers under electric lights on a purpose built platform aglow in the centre of a field. There was music, as purr the pamphlet, it was good to have a band on hand both to entertain the attendees and play a funeral dirge after the verdict. Some things were optional, a hearse with black bunting, a funeral oration, a clergyman to deliver it - but there should be lawyers, real ones. Even the prosecution would concede he was merely being a bull doing bull things, but he was afforded no jury of peers to judge whether he did them well. Because who there could truly judge that one scrub bull there to stand in for all
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