To the Lighthouse, Part 3 of 13
The Sleepy Bookshelf
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The Long Wastes of the Ages
'He would not die lying down. He would find some crag of rock and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to end to pierce the darkness,' writes Ramsey. 'How many men in a thousand million he asked himself, reach said after all? Surely the leader of a full-on hope may ask himself that, and answer, without treachery to the expedition behind him?' "It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter," says Ramsey. "'His fame lasts, perhaps, two thousand years.' From what are two thousand years?" asks Mr. Ramsey ironically,. The very stone one kicks with one's boot
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