“Why hire a lawyer? I’ll make myself one!” And Trurl went home, threw six heaping teaspoons of transistors into a big pot, added again as many condensers and resistors, poured electrolyte over it, stirred well and covered tightly with a lid, then went to bed, and in three days the mixture had organized itself into a first-rate lawyer. Trurl didn’t even need to remove it from the pot, since it was only to serve this once, so he set the pot on the table and asked: “What are you?” “I’m a consulting attorney and specialist in jurisprudence,” the pot gurgled, for there was a little too much
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