"It was not just being excluded, of course, but it was the summation of his life.
He thereby excluded many of his best-known and best-loved poems and most of his first world war poems.
The development corporation official overseeing the memorial process said no one was excluded because of his or her views.
The Home Office explained at the time: "He was excluded because of his previous involvement in actions leading to violence".
On his CV, he excluded details of his journalistic career and included one fake reference and a real one, the newspaper claimed.
Where the previous outsiders of the western yearned for social reintegration, that option seems never to occur to the Reynolds character, who knows he is permanently excluded because of his race.
Necessarily, such extracts or short stories, suitable for a two-hour entertainment, excluded some of his larger and deeper effects—notably, his social criticism and analysis and his later novels were underrepresented.
But late on Saturday night his spokesman said that he had decided to travel to the funeral after all, after the government scrambled to dispel the impression that Tutu, whom many see as South Africa's moral compass following the death of Mandela, had been excluded because of his record of criticising a notoriously thin-skinned administration.
They stopped at Washington on the way home, and there procured the arrest of the slave-trader at whose instance Solomon had been confined in the slave-pen in 1841; but without the evidence of Solomon, which was excluded because of his colour, it was impossible to secure a conviction, and the trader was discharged.
Reports that Lewis had excluded six of his children from his will surfaced earlier this year. .
