Thomas Howard

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" ... I find myself swept into the entourage of someone ... famous ... my name appears in a roster of notables, or near-notables, or at least of those who appear to promise notability. Why preen when I step forward to take up the dignity of some office to which I have been appointed...? Because (I tell myself) here lies my route of escape from hiddennes.... I can lay hold of the thing that alone will rescue my existence from the mirk of obscurity, namely, an identity that is known, if not by the millions, at least by the few who form my world."

Thomas Howard
On Being Catholic