There are Other Worlds to Sing In

It might be like having a tenured UVA law professor coming to a young Teaching Assistant and asking some question like, "Why do you say an accused is innocent until she is proven guilty?" I can imagine the TA responding with "You can't be serious! After all, that is a basice tente of American jurisprudence." In Britain, it is the other way around but Charlottesville is a long way from Briston, in England, that is.