I started to feel sorry for Giuliani… unlucky year?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/19/rudy-giuliani-dye-my-cousin-vinny-press-conference

Sonnet 64

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45096/sonnet-64-when-i-have-seen-by-times-fell-hand-defacd

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/19/douglas-stuart-wins-booker-prize-for-debut-shuggie-bain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/books/booker-prize-winner-douglas-stuart-shuggie-bain.amp.html%3f0p19G=6214

‘It Was Hard Not to Eavesdrop on the Two Men at the Next Table’

Eavesdrop 盗み聞きする

In a video news conference, Margaret Busby, this year’s chair of judges, said the vote was unanimous and quick, and she noted that she believed the book is destined to become a classic.

Be Destined to になる宿命

crematorium 火葬場

allay 和らげる　/ æléɪ / (米国英語)/ əléɪ / (英国英語)

ally əlάɪ 連帯