He had to pass the lapped cars on the racetrack.

Four towns in the Quabbin Valley were disincorporated, and their residents relocated, to create a reservoir.

Besides, if worse came to worst he had his pig-sticker— a beautiful switch-blade stiletto he'd scrounged off the body of a Latino after a gang war— in his back pocket.

The result follows trippingly from the premise. But adopting the premise requires departing from judicial practice and principle.