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...epitaph drear: "A fool lies here...
Shortly before his death at 25, he wrote, in effect, his own epitaph...
...Epitaph for Everyman. Before he is done, Golding has stripped Jocelin of every last shred of selfdelusion. Jocelin thought he had, at least, been chosen by God for his post in the cathedral. He finds that the choosers in fact were the king and his paramour (Jocelin's aunt) who pleased the king and asked a favor for her nephew. He thinks his vision of the spire is divinely inspired - but Golding insistently suggests that it may just as well be a phallic sublimation of Jocelin's repressed yearnings for the red-haired wife of a cathedral worker...
Above all, our Russia covers constitute a gallery of dead men. Trotsky, who appeared three times, was killed in 1940 by the agents of Joseph Stalin, who in turn appeared eight times before he died in 1953. The ninth cover story offered this epitaph: "He might have boasted in the words of the Roman song honoring Emperor Aurelian...
...Dirksen who pronounced the kindest epitaph for the year's session. "When all is said and done," he said, "the first session of the 88th Congress was not a 'do-nothing Congress' as some would have it or a 'dolittle Congress' or a 'standstill Congress.' The more appropriate term would be a 'stop, look, and listen, Congress...