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How Timely:

I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
I’ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan  —
We all have seen him, in the pantomime,
Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.
                                            – – Don Juan, Canto the First
                                                by Lord Byron

— sdh