{"id":1310,"date":"2008-05-07T22:37:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2008-05-30T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T01:56:11","slug":"getting-mad-perry-mason-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Getting mad, Perry Mason style"},"content":{"rendered":"

A discussion of tactics between the lawyer Perry Mason and the private detective Paul Drake that occurs on page 128 of The Case of the Amorous Aunt<\/em> by Erle Stanley Gardner:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘Tomorrow I’m going to be dignified, injured, and perhaps just a little dazed by the rapidity of developments.’<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘Are you going to be an injured martyr or are you going to get mad?’ Drake asked.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘It depends on which way will do my client the most good,’ Mason told him.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘My best hunch is that you should get mad,’ Drake said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘We’ll think it over,’ Mason said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘Won’t you get mad anyway?’ Drake said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘A good lawyer can always get mad if somebody pays him for it, but after you’ve been paid a few times for getting good and mad, you hate like the deuce to get mad on your own when nobody’s paying you for it.’<\/p>\n

“Drake grinned. ‘You lawyers,’ he said.”<\/p>\n

Well. I feel a little odd agreeing with a fictional lawyer, but it occurs to me that that religious professionals are wasting their time if they get mad while at church, unless they’re getting paid to get mad. I guess what I mean to say is this: while getting mad is a natural reaction to many things that happen in church life, you rarely get anything out of getting mad, except getting mad.<\/p>\n

Not that I think we should draw life lessons from a pulp fiction hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A discussion of tactics between the lawyer Perry Mason and the private detective Paul Drake that occurs on page 128 of The Case of the Amorous Aunt by Erle Stanley Gardner: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘Tomorrow I’m going to be dignified, injured, and perhaps just a little dazed by the rapidity of developments.’ \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ‘Are you going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-sf-pulp-lit","tag-perry-mason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}