I assure you the law isn’t a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather…the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.

I assure you the law isn’t a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather…the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.

– Dean Koontz –

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