Certainly, the Prince and the Palace were perpetually on the back foot thereafter, which is where, after yesterday, they will perpetually remain.
Although we will spend the rest of our lives knowing neither his name nor his story, we will know that what he gave us -- what he, in fact, donated to us -- will perpetually affect how we practice medicine and how we care for those who are in need of care.
Tantalized by the potential of greatness, they fear it will perpetually elude them.
They remind us that there will always be selfish people, and that the cycles of cooperation will perpetually wax and wane.
Groupon needs another $750 million to keep the lights on and to keep growing while it prays for profitability that will perpetually lay just one funding round away.
We are moving inextricably towards a point where we worship borders and security over human life, and where black and brown bodies will perpetually be dismissed as the "Other".
In the future as in the past, those who hold the existing order in utter contempt will perpetually rediscover the power of a tiny group to intimidate and frighten those whom they cannot persuade.
Given the racial and class makeup of the men on stage last night, it's a safe bet the America they envision, where illegal immigrants, as Mitt Romney declared, would engage in "self-deportation", is a country that will perpetually be a society of haves and have-nots, of the blame game, rather than practical solutions to move America forward.
But most other authors in question are not globally known first and foremost as actors, and not a single one of them at the very mention of their name will perpetually glide through the minds of millions as a sweet underdog teenager from the mid-1980s wearing a homemade prom dress that's pink.
