>There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that when Louis XVI was guillotined, somebody leaped onto the scaffold, grabbed the head to show to the crowd, and screamed "Jacques DeMolay, though art avenged." Of course, the 'feeling of a cold icicle running across the back of the neck' could hardly be compared to being roasted alive in front of Notre Dame but the 18th century was a kinder and gentler time.
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>And since a good part of the French (and American) revolutions was plotted in Masonic lodges, Jack's last words could be indeed seen a prophetic. ( well, okay, the 'swiftly' thing i guess has to be seen in geologic terms ... )
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>Actually, the whole flap about trying to purge all references to a deity the FFs certainly saw in deistic rather than theistic terms seems like a lot of wheel spinning and ranks right up there with flag-burning ammendments and "defense of marriage" as exercises in sputtering righteousness.
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>It is life as seen by lawyers rather than poets.
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>(c.f. T.S. Elliot, below )
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Have not heard that story. It sounds possible although I doubt it.

Agreed on the flap. We have more important issues to deal with that those mentioned.

And you probably know that my opinion of lawyers is not too high. They rank right next to used car salesmen.