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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing about.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing about.
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. But Old Derby was a character now.