Great Scott!

Great Scott!In the film Patton, there is a mysterious, beautifully photographed scene in which the monomaniacal and supremely individualistic World War Two general, standing with an aide in a graveyard of war in North Africa, delivers this moving and evocative self-summation: "I fought and strove and perished countless times. ... As through a glass darkly the age-old strife I see. ... For I fought in many guises. ... Had many names. ... But always me."This does nicely as an epigraph fo...