The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.

At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.

Figure 42: “Quad Suits”

Walter Thurmond Bishop, Thurmond's nephew and the chief federal bankruptcy court judge for South Carolina, Can we say NEPOTISM?