Q. When Is a Bachelor NOT a Bachelor?
A. When it suits Random House's litigation goals.
Beginning on page 29 of its Feb. 22, 2005 Memorandum of Law, Random states: "Unlike the married Ridgeway, Langdon has a "life-long affinity for bachelorhood and the simple freedoms it allowed."
BUT RANDOM HOUSE PERVERTS THE ENTIRE MEANING BY TAKING THAT OUT OF CONTEXT!
The quote as it appears in context from DV Code reads:
"Langdon had never harbored delusions that a woman like Vittoria Vetra could have been happy living with him on a college campus, but their encounter in Rome had unlocked in him a longing he never imagined he could feel. His lifelong affinity for bachelorhood and the simple freedoms it allowed had been shaken somehow. . . replaced by an unexpected emptiness that seemed to have grown over the past year."
In FACT, Langdon is in the IDENTICAL -- not similar, identical -- state of mind as heroes Curtis Davis (DV Legacy) and Seth Ridgeway (Daughter of God).
In fact, Davis and Ridgeway -- like Langdon -- have lost their true love about a year before we see them.
Despite the Random House distortion of this issue, all three men are identical in most ways, including their emotional state when the book begins and their motivations.
Just look for yourself at my original legal filing (starting on page 40) or this section (starting on page 3) from John Olsson's report.
Those show men that are triplets right down to their psychological quirks.
Random House's every attempt at creating some distance between Langdon and the Heroes in DV Legacy and DoG fail in precisely the same ways: distortions, out-of-context quotes and omissions.
If you're going to argue differences, try "the truth, the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth."
Beginning on page 29 of its Feb. 22, 2005 Memorandum of Law, Random states: "Unlike the married Ridgeway, Langdon has a "life-long affinity for bachelorhood and the simple freedoms it allowed."
BUT RANDOM HOUSE PERVERTS THE ENTIRE MEANING BY TAKING THAT OUT OF CONTEXT!
The quote as it appears in context from DV Code reads:
"Langdon had never harbored delusions that a woman like Vittoria Vetra could have been happy living with him on a college campus, but their encounter in Rome had unlocked in him a longing he never imagined he could feel. His lifelong affinity for bachelorhood and the simple freedoms it allowed had been shaken somehow. . . replaced by an unexpected emptiness that seemed to have grown over the past year."
In FACT, Langdon is in the IDENTICAL -- not similar, identical -- state of mind as heroes Curtis Davis (DV Legacy) and Seth Ridgeway (Daughter of God).
In fact, Davis and Ridgeway -- like Langdon -- have lost their true love about a year before we see them.
Despite the Random House distortion of this issue, all three men are identical in most ways, including their emotional state when the book begins and their motivations.
Just look for yourself at my original legal filing (starting on page 40) or this section (starting on page 3) from John Olsson's report.
Those show men that are triplets right down to their psychological quirks.
Random House's every attempt at creating some distance between Langdon and the Heroes in DV Legacy and DoG fail in precisely the same ways: distortions, out-of-context quotes and omissions.
If you're going to argue differences, try "the truth, the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth."
posted by Lewis Perdue at 11:44 AM
7 Comments:
Seth is married though, no? Langdon may want to be but he's not. Isn't that the bottom line of the claim aside from the implication that he doesn't want to be in any event? RH can't know that from the description. They invented it.
As far as Seth knows, Zoe is dead. It's been a year. Married or not, he is essentially a single guy who has lost his true love.
And Curtis Davis from DV Legacy is in EXACTLY the same position as Langdon.
The point also is that RH deliberately led people to believe that Langdon was a "committed bachelor" when, indeed, he had moved past that.
What they used OUT of context was deliberately misleading.
Yes, I have been told that intellectual honesty is not required in a trial, but I want people to know how low RH is stooping ... and start to wonder: If their case is so good, why do they have to lie?
Why are they afraid of a trial?
What is it about the truth that they cannot come to grips with?
That's right I'd forgotten that Zoe was missing for that long so yeah he's essentially a widower at that point. It's ironic but I have write one of these motions for summary judgment on a Catholic Church molestation case.
"summary judgment on a Catholic Church molestation case"
Oh Geez, now THAT is a life-altering experience.
Yeah, I'm thrilled with the assignment, had no idea it was coming, but in addition to my homework case I already had a head start reading RH's so I should be able to supplant the law with some good BS.
Vanessa, this also overlooks the even more identical relationship between Curtis Davis and his lost love.
In addition, when you go back to the writing in DVC and DoG, you find both men described in nearly identical ways.
PLUS, this is one of many IDENTICALITIES among Langdon, Ridgeway and Davis. I would refer you to page 40 of this document, and to page 3 from John Olsson's report.
It is SIGNIFICANT that the only ONE of the characteristics that Random House has been able to challenge has been done so by citing OUT of context and twisting the reality of what was written.
What they did in taking that quote out of context was simple dishonest.
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