"Peter K." wrote:
>
> Both Empire and Letters to a Young
> Contrarian (Hitch's latest book) contain this quote
> from William Morris:
>
> "Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that
> they fought for comes about in spite of defeat,
> and when it comes it turns out not to be what
> they meant, and other men have to fight for
> what they meant under another name."
>
What's most impressive about this are the lovely sentence rhythms, which create the illusion that something is being said.
Carrol