Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives…The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.
—Herman Wouk
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