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Flags in the Realm™ and the Empire fly at half-staff today.
We have lost one of our own – LC Warspite.
My Grandfather known to you all as Warspite (from the Royal Navy ship he used to regal us with in bedtime stories, first my Dad and Uncles and then us grandkids) sadly passed a few days ago. He asked me to make this post, and I am doing his bidding.
The Old One was a fine man and I am proud beyond words to he known him and to be his grandson. My Dad was a Navy pilot and went down when I was three in a Med accident so he pretty much raised me. We understood each other, I think. I loved him-but I liked him too. That is rare among relations in my experience. I will miss my Grandfather always.
For the last 13 years he worked like a man on a mission to translate and annotate Plutarch’s “Parallel Lives”. I guess he figured it was his only possible fight in the culture wars. He believed deeply in the old virtues, and defined men by their heroism. Blind and wheelchair-bound, he made the project work through sheer butt-fascist dogged determination. The scope and scale of the effort was almost beyond human ability-over 1 million words in the end-which explains why it had not been done since 1680. The work was finished recently and, like a light going out, Grandfather declined rapidly. As he so long kept hidden, eventually the battleground of illness that was his final lot became impossible to conceal.
I was very fortunate to be with him as he finished his life. He said:
“O inscrutabilis Scrutator animarum, cui patet omne cor, si me vocaveras, olim a te fugeram. Si autem nunc velis vocare me indignum”.
Unlike my Grandfather, I provide translations:
“O inscrutable scrutinizer of souls, to whom every heart is open, if you had called me, once I would have fled from you. If however now you should wish to call me, though unworthy, I go”
He didn’t change much.
Our family is grateful to Misha and all you guys and gals. The Old Man really had a blast here-and I loved working with him long distance to make it happen. God bless and keep you all.
AVE ET ATQVE VALE
Words can’t express.  So I’m not even going to try.
Our prayers are with Warspite’s family at this time.
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