Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but balanced between Tony's fingers it was just the final grace note in a narrative so rich in symbolism it could, and would, be deconstructed as thoroughly as any Shakespearean play or Greek tragedy.
And this time her final grace notes really do have the desired effect, elevating a whimsical tale to serious clarity.
To know Being, that is the final grace accorded from the mountain".
The final grace note on his speech was not even his own.
That is the final grace accorded from the mountain". This is Shepherd's version of Descartes's cogito - I walk therefore I am.
Concentration camps, torture, forced labor, suffering all monstrous inhumanities, even the consequences of our own resistance, would be unknown to us were we possessed of such final grace--making it tempting to envy the easy death of birds, were it not dangerous to do so.
He shot her twice in the chest before administering a final coup de grace to the head.
Then, in a final act of grace and humility, she invites her embarrassment of a mother to accompany her to the party after the show.
Restoration to duty saved him from humiliation and embarrassment, but set the stage for a final fall from grace and an ignominious end to his military career — and his marriage.
"You'd really have been something, Mother," she says, "if you had someone to push you, like I did". Then, in a final act of grace and humility, she invites her embarrassment of a mother to accompany her to the party after the show.
