“Let all thy words be counted.”
Dante, Inf., canto X.

Words
for
G. Robert Crowningshield,
a developer of the
International Diamond
Grading System™

According to a
press release,
Crowningshield
died on
November 8.

See Grave Matters,
an entry of that date,
and its links to
Geometry’s Tombstones,
Birth, Death, and Symmetry,
and
Religious Symbolism
at Princeton.

Dante, Inferno, Canto X, 37-39:

E l’animose man del duca e pronte
mi spinser tra le sepulture a lui,
dicendo: “Le parole tue sien conte.”

And the bold and ready hands
    of my Leader
pushed me between the tombs to him,
saying: “Let thy words be fitting”.

“Make your words count,”
 Virgil instructs Dante:
“Speak aptly, make what you say
 appropriate to the situation.”

Perhaps Crowningshield’s
Leader will be…

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Niemoller is noted for his role in
the movement that led to the
Barmen Declaration, discussed in
Presbyterian Creedal Standards—
linked to in the above-cited
Religious Symbolism
at Princeton

(…that lay in the house
that Jack built).
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