Judgement from which there is no appeal

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Doug Millison wrote:

> Isn't this long- and often-used, poetical way to refer to death?
> Shakespeare, if not earlier?

It's certainly good enough to be Shakespeare--a sibling perhaps to
Hamlet's undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

My earlier post probably should have cited  C. K. Scott Moncrief's actual
words: (or possibly Terrence Kilmartin's who  followed on with the
evolving translation)

But at other times, while my parents were growing impatient at seeing me
loiter behind instead of following them, my present life, instead of
seeming an artificial creation of my father's which he could modify as he
chose, appeared, on the contrary, to be comprised in a larger reality
which had not been created for my benefit, FROM WHOSE JUDGMENTS THERE WAS
NO APPEAL, within which I had no ally . . . etc., etc. (emphasis added)
 
		P.