The tassel on the end of his pigtail waggled all down the path and, as he turned out of the gate, it gave a special little flip.

I blanked out my previous entry.

I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.

Different kinds of systematic interpretation of statutes affect each other. Construction of a statutory provision depends at the same time on interpretation of other provisions, systematics of the statute, conceptual analysis and theories formulated in legal dogmatics.