From Bleak House, ch. 1: “The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality; there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.” And now from Louisiana comes word that the parish of East Baton Rouge is proposing to settle a school desegregation lawsuit that has dragged on for 47 years. (Charles Lussier, “School Board OKs desegregation pact”, Baton Rouge Advocate, Jun. 26).
School desegregation’s Jarndyce?
From Bleak House, ch. 1: “The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has […]
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