Interesting Description of a Will

Jancet Malcolm provides an interesting description of a will in Strangers in Paradise: How Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas got to Heaven, The New Yorker, Nov. 13, 2006, at 57:

Wills are uncanny and electric documents. They lie dormant for years and then spring to life when their author dies, as if death were rain. Their effect on those they enrich is never negligible, and sometimes unexpectedly charged. They thrust living and dead into a final fierce clasp of love or hatred. But they are not written in stone—for all their granite legal language—and they can be bent to subvert the wishes of the writer.

Special thanks to Dr. Natalie Tarenko for bringing this article to my attention.