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Nov. 27th, 2007 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusYeah -- I've been reading this marvellous biography, and I usually hate biography, but this one's been a pleasure. It's called Scanty Particulars by Rachel Holmes, and it's the story of the British doctor James Miranda Barry.
Barry has several biographies, but none is so well-researched or presented. Holmes was kind of annoyed that Barry's secret -- revealed at the end of his life -- eclipsed all the other astonishing things he managed to do. He was pretty adventurous.
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maidenofirisa, I thought Phoenix Wright was a bizarre, Bizarro-world version of the legal system, like all those bad Hollywood dramas. Turns out that -- except for the time constraints and the cravats and evil spirits -- it's actually a fairly accurate depiction of the Japanese legal system, right down to the manufacturing of evidence and prosecutors running things. Remind me not to get arrested in Japan.
(As I've encountered Dahlia Hawthorne now, I'll also say that it gives a fairly accurate depiction of literature majors, too.)
Barry has several biographies, but none is so well-researched or presented. Holmes was kind of annoyed that Barry's secret -- revealed at the end of his life -- eclipsed all the other astonishing things he managed to do. He was pretty adventurous.
In other news,
maidenofirisa, I thought Phoenix Wright was a bizarre, Bizarro-world version of the legal system, like all those bad Hollywood dramas. Turns out that -- except for the time constraints and the cravats and evil spirits -- it's actually a fairly accurate depiction of the Japanese legal system, right down to the manufacturing of evidence and prosecutors running things. Remind me not to get arrested in Japan.(As I've encountered Dahlia Hawthorne now, I'll also say that it gives a fairly accurate depiction of literature majors, too.)