If I hadn’t been a philosopher, I would probably have been a lawyer. I thought one of the big advantages of my actual career move was that I got considerably more flexibility in my writing. That I could, if I so chose, write out papers in rhyming verse. (Or engage in obscure Joycean word games in probability papers, for example.) I didn’t think I could do that, for example, in writing legal briefs. It turns out “I was wrong”:http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/humor/grinch.asp. You can submit a legal brief in Seussian verse after all. Happy news for the season!