She ordered him to hide under the bed and told him he must survive, words that became his inspiration in the camps.
James floods the project's control room with radiation to stop the Enclave military leader, Colonel Augustus Autumn, from taking control of it, killing himself (but Autumn survives), his last words urging his child to run.
The idea seems audaciously doomed: how could the story possibly survive without words?
As John Moore wrote in his book, You English Words: "The odds against a new word surviving must be longer than those against a great oak tree growing from any given acorn".
She pretended to be able to read and write, surviving by guessing words and inventing connections between them and sometimes just remaining mute, as she wrote in "Reversals: A Personal Account of Victory Over Dyslexia," (Houghton Mifflin, 1979).
But it survives on word from home.
I have to survive on word of mouth".
This letter has not survived; its wording was recalled by Waugh 40 years later, in his biography A Little Learning.
His last words were said to have been "Jefferson survives".
In republican Turkey the official title disappeared, the social use of the word surviving only among the lower classes.
