
The aftermath of the defeat of Dunkirk with victims among his acquaintances makes Nicholas Jenkins ponder:
The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal ending.
in: Anthony Powell; The Valley of Bones. Penguin Ed. 1968. P. 178.
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