文档介绍：His Latest Trick
The acrobat had e quite adept. So much that his latest trick could get no actuary to acquiesce in providing him insurance: there being no need for actuarial evidence to back the denial of any policy being written up. This latest trick was considered so dangerous that even the acrobat had to acknowledge he could very well die were he to perform it.
   I had made his acquaintance over a decade before. He'd been an acoustic guitar playing acne-faced addict without an address. He suffered from an acute addiction to pain-killers(in addition to a special food additive which would addle his wits and leave his skin as hard as the shell of an acorn). I would acquit him of lasser crimes: I was a judge with enough acuity then to appreciate that the young man he was could be turned around.
I didn't want him to e one more addendum in newspaper obituaries. I was adamant he could be saved, ignoring the adage that"once bad, always bad." I believed he could adapt to a life without drugs. And he showed himself adaptable; his acquisitive intellect acquired the necessary skills to e a essful acrobat after his acquittal. But it would be an acrimonious process for him, when not having the adequate patience he'd lash out against his strict training regimen.
Even I, who kept close watch on his case, at times, doubted he could adhere. But he had the acumen to e. I could adduce hi