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Indeed, he has evolved into a "very fine person," according to his ex-wife--humbled by years of psychotic helplessness, buoyed up by the intellectual world's highest accolade.
“You puff the poets of other days, the living you deplore; spare me the accolade: your praise is not worth dying for.”
the locomotive, a diesel-burning Class 2900 Santa Fe 4-8-4 that had been constructed in 1943 but had survived the decades most admirably and now gleamed like a Secret Service agent's lapel pin, was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town whose inhabitants clustered where the rails seemed to converge, their fluttering hands and smiling faces congealed into a tuberous mirage that already was beginning to deliquesce, its bipedal spores gamboling away from the station where, only moments before, the candidates had stood to receive the traditional accolade from the traditional close-packed crowd.
Back on the main road, some 5 km (3 miles) from Estellencs, take in perhaps the finest view of the entire coast — quite an accolade — from the snail-shaped 16th-century tower of the Mirador de Ses Ànimes.
The ultimate accolade came in 1991, when Dublin was designated a European City of Culture.