“When I am dead,
“I hope it may be said:
“His sins were scarlet,
“but his books were read.”
— Hilaire Belloc
(Thanks, Jaine Sirieys!)
Photo credit: “Siegfried Sassoon Grave,” by Graham Allard, Mells Churchyard, United Kingdom, May 2006, via Wikimedia Commons.
“The Microbe is so very small
“You cannot make him out at all,
“But many sanguine people hope
“To see him through a microscope.”
— Hilaire Belloc, “More Beasts for Worse Children,” 1897
“Too bad the Hovitos don’t know you the way that I do … BELLOC.”
— Indiana Jones, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” 1981
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 