"The bitch that bore him is in heat again".
Duke Nukem, the iconic frontman of the cherished series that bore his name, was laid to rest with the closure of 3D Realms - the development studio that bore him, raised him and pig-headedly refused to let him go.
Like Virgil's "Georgics," his poems offer a quiet master-class on how a farm used to be run, the homage of someone who returns again and again to the Irish fields that bore him.
Many children will identify with Galileo, who is alternately inspired and frustrated by his father's high expectations, endures lessons at school in subjects that bore him to tears and, of course, dreams of what an alternate future might hold.
Some time ago, he went to Japan, to minister to thousands of Christian believers; word has now come, however, that he has apostasized — forsaken the faith that bore him to that country in the first place.
Applause drew time from trending pause when, hands grown sore, each leaned to his companion, said some words of praise, and emptied into the warm, familiar night, while he, washed pale of his trade's disguise, escaped the watchers through an unknown door, entered the craft that bore him home.
By the time he ascends a giant podium, Ui has become Hitler in all but name; and Brecht's famous final line warning us that, even if Hitler is dead, "the bitch that bore him is in heat again", acquires chilling resonance at a time when extremist movements are on the rise throughout Europe.
Beginning with cheerful jazz in a Chicago speak-easy, the production ends with a shocking coup de théâtre, which I will not reveal expect to say that after the megalomaniac frenzy of Ui's final rant atop a lofty podium, it is Goodman who peels off his moustache and comes out of character to speak the epilogue's wise warning that "The bitch that bore him is in heat again".
