title: Lest We Forget: An Anthology of Remembrance
author:  Brian L Porter 
description: Winner, Best Author, The Preditors & Editors Readers Awards 2009, and also Winner of Best Children's Book, and Best Artwork for 'Tilly's Tale' (under his Harry Porter pseudonym), and with a Top Ten Finisher Award for his thriller 'Legacy of the Ripper', Brian L Porter is the author of a number of successful novels. His works include the winner of The Preditors & Editors Best Thriller Novel 2008 Award, A Study in Red -- The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper and its sequels, Legacy of the Ripper and the final part of his Ripper trilogy, Requiem for the Ripper, all signed for movie adaptation by Thunderball Films (L.A.), with A Study in Red already in the development stages of production. Both A Study in Red and Legacy of the Ripper were awarded Recommended Read status by the reviewers at CK2S Kwips & Kritiques. Aside from his works on Jack the Ripper his other works include Pestilence, Purple Death, Glastonbury, Kiss of Life and The Nemesis Cell, and the short story collection, The Voice of Anton Bouchard and Other Stories. Brian has also become thoroughly integrated into the movie business since his first involvement with Thunderball Films LLC and is now also an Associate Producer and Co-Producer on a number of developing movies, as well as being a screenwriter for many of the movies soon to be released by Thunderball. He is a dedicated dog lover and rescuer and he and his wife share their home with a number of rescued dogs.
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  # And Even Now
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Max Beerbohm
  
  
  
  
      
  
  TO MY WIFE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of
  
  
  the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently)
  
  
  reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct
  
  
  reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was
  
  
  clear that these must have their dates affixed to them. And for sake
  
  
  of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought
  
  
  I need not exclude all such topical remarks as in them too were
  
  
  uttered, nor throw into a past tense such of those remarks as I have
  
  
  retained. Perhaps a book of essays ought to seem as if it had been
  
  
  written a few days before publication. On the other hand--but this is
  
  
  a Note, not a Preface.
  
  
  M.B.
  
  
  Rapallo, 1920.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### A RELIC
  
  
  
  
  
  1918.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Yesterday I found in a cupboard an old, small, batte