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.
Et en 1985, je me suis rendu compte que j'essayais d'accomplir quelque chose de littéralement impossible, car tous mes clients, tous les animaux dont j'essayais de défendre les intérêts, étaient des objets juridiques invisibles.