But I have since come to realize that my abject ignorance was really a gift: to be a literarily inclined illiterate at age 26 is one of the most glorious fates that can befall mortal girl.
The town is founded by Aeneas, who was informed as he left the burning ruins of Troy that it was his fate to found a new city with a glorious destiny in the West.
But, while Disney classics such as Bambi and The Lion King balanced grief with an abiding sense of fate and glorious birthright, director Andrew Stanton used it as fuel for comedy, as dear old dad is forced to leave the safety of the reef for open waters populated by all manner of wickedly vivacious creatures, from vegetarian sharks to surfer dude turtles and garrulous Aussie gulls.
The game finished 0-0 and the crowd had seen over 90 minutes what Wales had only shown in patches before, the team clearly ready to go toe-to-toe with the top-seeded team in the group and refusing to accept their usual fate of glorious failure.
The truth is that Montreal is not a small city but it is a small market for this sport, and the economics of baseball doomed this once glorious franchise to its current fate.
Ms. Nichols's account of it was, as ever, clean, strict, full: accepting her fate, arching that glorious torso and opening herself to the light from which there is no return.
Considering the list of the carrier, as well as the fates of other carriers, including Courageous and Glorious, which had sunk rapidly with heavy loss of life, Maund gave the order to abandon ship.
Which former glorious home of live music has met the most inglorious fate?
Throughout the rest of the episode, characters meet their fate — or come face to face with it — in ways both expected and unexpected, glorious and terrible.
At least we aren't secreting our bodily functions into self-cleaning polymer onesies while learning of the fate of Venice Beach, lesbian prison inmates or the personal lives of thirtysomething New Yorkers from the glorious isolation of our sofas.
