M&D quote p. 8

[Michael Nicholson]

"After many years wasted at perfecting a parsonical Disguise,--
grown old in the service of an 	Impersonation that never took more than
a Handful of actor's tricks,-- past remembering those Yearnings 	for
Danger, past all that ought to have been, but never had a Hope of
becoming, have I beach'd upon 	these Repuplican Shores,-- stoven,
dismasted, imbecile with age,-- an untrustworthy Remembrancer for 	whom
the few events yet rattling within a broken memory must provide the only
comfort now remaining to 	him,--"