And by 1985, I realized that I was trying to accomplish something that was literally impossible, the reason being that all of my clients, all the animals whose interests I was trying to defend, were legal things; they were invisible.
1985 bemerkte ich schlieβlich,  dass ich etwas bewerkstelligen wollte, das so gut wie unmöglich war. Der Grund dafür war,  dass alle meine Klienten, all die Tiere, deren Interessen ich zu verteidigen versuchte, Sachen waren, und somit unsichtbar.