| Description | Notes are expressed in parodic form as a legal case 'Core v/c Surface', described as 'Situation like last chapter but one of the detective stories by one of Oxford's Hon D Laws'. The pages are numbered 5 and 6 by Blackett and presumably formed part of a longer sequence which has not survived.
The notes include 'Case for prosecution of Earth's core' (ie self-reversal), 'The Core's Case for its Defence', and verdict of 'NOT PROVEN'.
There are also two quatrains of rhyming couplets by Bret Harte, copied out by Blackett.
There is no indication of place or date, or whether the 'case' was publicly delivered. The paper used is the same as for the 'Random thoughts' notes dated 1968 in C.171 |