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He seemed incapable of creating such chaos, but much of what he saw below could be blamed on him.  And that was fine.  He was ninety-one, paralyzed, strapped in a wheelchair and hooked to oxygen.  His second stroke seven years ago had almost finished him off, but Abraham Rosenberg was still alive and even with tubes in his nose his legal stick was bigger than the other eight.  He was the only legend remaining on the Court, and the fact that he was still breathing irritated most of the mob below.
-John Grisham,  The Pelican Brief