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...Hobbes made it fashionable to have a rational disregard for religion, the only binding force for an otherwise criminal aristocracy. Any power Parliament had gained during Cromwell's Commonwealth dissipated with the return of Charles II, for whom Rochester saved some of the most vicious barbs--as in this epitaph...
That was not Nate's way. Faulkner's celebrated epitaph for all the blacks in The Sound and the Fury was "They endured." Nate Shaw did more than that...
...gratuitously trotted on like a lab specimen. The characters' motives, seen through moments of fragmentary introspection, are not always adequate. Still, most of Dog Soldiers is as precise as the cross hairs on a rifle sight. With fearful accuracy it describes a journey to hell and pronounces an epitaph on a time that has not ended. ∎Paul Gray
Though Moses is still sharp-tongued and healthy at age 85, his epitaph, as Author Robert Caro points out, might well be the same as that of 17th century British Architect Christopher Wren: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice (If you would see his monument, look around...
Then the legacy of peace suddenly became uppermost in Nixon's mind, and in the minds of all these men. Haig, Kissinger and the others wanted to save that much for Nixon. If there was to be an epitaph, Nixon wanted it thus. Kissinger emerged to tell the world that American foreign policy stood unchanged. It would go on, just as America was going on. On Tuesday evening Nixon was coming to grips with hard reality. He called Kissinger five times on the phone. He talked about his position: what would happen in the world, the country...