24 OR NABOKOV?

(h/t Dennis G. at Balloon Juice)

This is a liitle more evidence of conservative mediocrity.  Nina Totenburg of NPR reported on Supreme Court Justices views of how to be a good writer.  For me, this is the key segment:

Justice Thomas says a good legal brief reminds him of the TV show 24. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says one of the great influences on her writing was her European literature professor at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov ...