Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — Wanted Epitaph to Endure. [ARTICLE]

Wanted Epitaph to Endure.

Edmond de Goncourt, the French novelist, admitted that he worked with an eye to his epitaph, and he wanted the epitaph to endure for a long time. He records in his journal that "the thought that the world may Dorish may not last forever, is one which occasionally fills my mind with -loom I should be defrauded by the destruction of this planet, for I have written only in the hope of eternal fame A reputation lasting 10,000, 20 000 even 100,000 years, would be. ’ooo'r return for the pains I have taken the privations I have suffered, vinrtnr these conditions It would have been better to lounge aimlessly through lite. dreamin* and smoking py time away.”