If you're sharing your observing session with other amateur astronomers, you may want to include their names and notes on their equipment for posterity.
But perhaps the authors of these jottings should pause to tweak their Rabelaisian prose and keep one eye on posterity.
Seducers are rarely hung up on posterity or on their own self-justifying theories.
Seriously, if someone recorded the JFK assassination on their mobile, do you think posterity would copy down the model of phone for the history books?
But the beauty of the Europa League lies exactly in the fact that it does not have one eye on posterity.
While he enjoyed many successes, under various names, with singles such as "Johnny Reggae", "Una Paloma Blanca", "Lick a Smurf for Christmas" and "The Sun Has Got His Hat On", posterity is likely to judge King, who was running Decca Records at the age of 22, less on his own singles and more on his reputation as an enabler of others.
Picasso was jealous of the marches Braque had stolen - Fruit Dish and Glass (1912), the first papier collé (pasted paper or collage), complete with mock wood wallpaper purchased in a shop in Avignon while Picasso was away in Paris - and of their claim on posterity.
Though Cage no doubt had one eye fixed on posterity, he delighted less in the spread of his influence than in the fracturing of the tidy musical order in which he came of age.
Willett is that rare novelist who writes in the moment -- a glorious place to be -- and not with one eye fixed on the posterity gauge.
Who knows, I suspect one day footrests will be standard fare on toilets and posterity will scratch their heads at that strange dark time in history when folks sat straight up to poop.
Although journal entries, and even some correspondence, can be written with an eye firmly on posterity or on one's own reputation, and therefore are not entirely reliable, these primary-source materials do provide a valuable, and fascinating, window into the private lives of royal spouses.
