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grammar school teachers urged us to choose our mottoes then, in time, as though a motto were as vital as one’s health, one’s name. (What did one do with one's motto, once found?—write it on one’s walls? tattoo it on one’s chest? One lived by it, was the answer of course.) I looked for years, without satisfaction. Surrounded in the threatened air of that wartime America by a cloud of service, corps, battalion mottoes dedicated to de- struction—Semper Fidelis, Semper Para- tus, Keep Em’ Flying—I was relieved to discover that the motto of my family had been for a long time Vive Ut Vivas— Live That You May Live—but while I saw even then how vigorous it was, it seemed nothing personal; an old Welsh family’s slogan, not mine. So I lacked a motto. 9
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FINDING WORK by Reynolds Price Mottoes, like heroes, are out of fashion. Perhaps wars have come too closely on us lately and we have not had time to forget the savage poverty of wartime mottoes, the brief and lethal imperatives —Remember the Alamo! Remember the Maine! Lafayette, we are coming! Re- member Pearl Harbor! Oddly, the Korean War and now the Vietnamese seem to lack battlecries. Perhaps their purposes and possibilities have been and are too complex and appalling to submit even to the simpletons who manufactured our earlier shouts. (That might be our hope —that now we at least know the density of war—were the hope itself not such a black end.) But when I was a child in North Car- olina in the Second World War, private mottoes still had almost magical power for me and my elders. Several of my 8
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