Obituary:
Robert Alexander Shearer, 1 June 1917 - 8 April 2009
``But when I think of the family,
I have in mind a bond which embaces . . .
a piety towards the dead, however obscure,
and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote.''
T. S. Eliot
Notes towards the Definition of Culture
(Chapter II)
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