"Professor Lewis, in his research, teaching and leadership in public affairs, was a bright beacon that lit, and in a major way, helped to guide more than a half-century of American race relations," said Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, a retired professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center.
I was only 12-years-old at the time, but the vision of lit beacons stays with me – hilltop by hilltop, alight to send a message.
Yet the Great Wall was not meant to be a purely defensive fortification; its towers functioned rather as a series of lit beacons and signalling stations to allow rapid warning to friendly units of advancing enemy troops.
There's a rhythm to the gameplay, as you send followers out to build new houses, harvest the belief, use that to create space for more houses, and discover beacons on hillsides which, when lit, unlock large swaths of new territory.
And when your eyes track his large force field, you begin to discover beacons blazing in the darkness, lit by the work of Walter Scott in Scotland, Alexander Afanasyev in Russia, and other omnivores of their countries' stories.
When I started smoking myself, I realized that a lit cigarette acted as a kind of beacon, drawing in any freeloader who happened to see or smell it.
I found endless peace in walking Beacon Hill's streets of red-doored, book-lined, chandelier-lit Federalist townhomes, whose careful and uncompromising elegance reminded me that everything I did mattered, that fate was made of human movements.
