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Law Practice

Dec. 24, 2008

It's a Small World

Model trains, toy soldiers -- perhaps the season's tendency toward minitiaturization reveals something deeper.

Robert L. Bastian Jr.

Partner, Bastian & Dini

Penthouse Suite 9025 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills , CA 90211

Phone: (310) 789-1955

Fax: (310) 822-1989

Email: robbastian@aol.com

Whittier Law School

The December holidays are about, among other things, train sets, dollhouses and miniature villages. My favorite touch in my family's heirloom village is, directly in front, on the skirt of snow, a tiny figurine of a painter, looking over his easel with brush in hand, measuring the church and houses climbing into the tree-laden mountain, which, in turn, disappears into the religious and pagan mystery of the tree. Look carefully on his canvas and there in tiny detail is the same scene upon...

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