Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. - James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Humme the Cheapner, Esc, overseen as we thought him, yet worthy of the naym, came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial fermament one tide on another (29.30)

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.