The American was "Rodger Prescott of evil memory," after the American counterfeiter in "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs".
According to Josephus, Simon razed the Acra after ousting its inhabitants, and then quarried the hill on which it had stood to render it lower than the temple, purge the city of its evil memory and deny it to any future occupier of Jerusalem.
He is encouraged by the sacristan to buy an antique manuscript volume which is possessed of older and evil memories.
"Memories have a long lifetime," recalls one of his characters, "and the evil memories have the longest lifetime of all .Mr Sudetic (who also wrote pieces for this paper) was the best correspondent the New York Times had in ex-Yugoslavia.
And it is a book of a deeper sort -- a rigorous theological and moral dialectic that Carroll, the author of "An American Requiem," never removes from the personal necessity of choice, for good over evil, for memory over denial and for love over power.
To Americans, Iran was now the dominant evil, and the memory of the 444-day hostage crisis in Tehran was bitter.
The first verse introduces a brutal quagmire: I tried so hard, my dear, to show that you're my every dream Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
"We look back at Nixon as the most evil president in recent memory, but they believed they were doing the right thing, and I'm sure the same is true of the people in the Obama administration," says Frye, who is also a law professor.
Other people will cite, as their earliest memory of evil incarnate, the wicked witch in Disney's Snow White: but to me she has always been a pussycat compared to the gnarled old witch in this story, turning up uninvited at people's cottages to sell them her malevolently enchanted brooms.
"If it's been almost a month, then why hasn't somebody come to get us?" That was the question posed on Wednesday's "Lost" by the character Claire (Emilie de Ravin), who returned, after being kidnapped by the evil Ethan William Mapotherr), with no memory of the plane crash that brought her and the others to the island.
