english: 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.
non_english: Okolo roku 1985 som si uvedomil, že sa snažím o nemožné, pretože všetci moji klienti, teda zvieratá, ktorých záujmy som hájil, boli v právnom zmysle vecami; pre súdy boli neviditeľní.