I was going to post something else today but hearing the news of (in alphabetical order...otherwise which to put first?):
- the conviction of two men for the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993:
http://stephenlawrence.org.uk/about-us/stephens-story#
and the deaths of:
- cartoonist Ronald Searle:
and the deaths of:
- cartoonist Ronald Searle:
Instead the line in my head was one from a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Maybe because of the work they leave behind them (RS & JS) or, in the case of SL, the impact on the criminal justice system and the achievements of the Stephen Lawrence Trust set up in his memory (http://stephenlawrence.org.uk/).....in some way..."death shall have no dominion”.
This is the Dylan Thomas website: http://www.dylanthomas.com/
This is the text of the poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178637
SL, RS, JS, DT.....RIP
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