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proclaim: "Yes, Iam nontraditional scholarship. What about it?" Looking for a sound thesis? Hah! Child's play. Try a great plot, crammed with suspense, romance and thousands of potboiling footnotes.

And yet, perhaps the paramount beauty of the work is that, despite being light years ahead of the competition, it never strays too far from its roots. In other words, it is nontraditional but in a classic, traditional, bet-hedging sort of way. We're talking about an article that: rethinks practically on automatic pilot, drives a hundred miles an hour toward a model¹⁰ of important stuff, is subject to spontaneous deconstruction, tosses the word hermeneutics around like a walk on the beach, puts post in front of (and sometimes behind) at least one word on every page, and, best of all, will take a thaumaturge¹¹ to figure out.

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CLXIII. CONCLUSION

In conclusion, I am confident that legal academicians everywhere will agree, probably unanimously, that the only important thing lacking in The World's Greatest Law Review Article²⁸³⁴³ is a colon in the title, but that is only because the author is beyond caring about such things, way beyond.

  ¹⁰ Pretty cool italics, huh?

  ¹¹ One of the truest measures of great legal scholarship is using words that no one understands. To assure that the terminology in my article meets this high standard, I made a lot of it up.

  ²⁸³⁴³ Andrew J. McClurg, The Worlds' Greatest Law Review Article. Only the first of many, many citations, I'm sure.

Originally published in the October 1995 issue of the American Bar Association Journal.