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AMERICAN LAWYER The defense will continue on this path of assumptions and weak evidence - ZEMBLAN LAWYER Weak? AMERICAN LAWYER - by calling upon outside witnesses. One such case is that of a renowned Oxford professor who vaguely thought he recognized Kinbote as the Zemblan king, despite Kinbote himself having denied these allegations in his own text! See for yourself. (He replaces it with another poster board, which reads:) Page 265: "... all bearded Zemblans resembled one another ... the name Zembla is a corruption ... of Semblerland, a land of reflections, of "resemblers" ..." Clearly, before Shade’s death and the theft of his poem, Kinbote never made any public claims of royalty to anyone. ZEMBLAN LAWYER Of course not; he was in hiding! JUDGE Order! 27