Jeff, you""re just like your father...I can see him, back at his old rolltop desk, hat and all, getting out his papers.Always kept his hat on his head so he was ready to do battle.Clayton Smith, editor and publisher, and champion of lost causes." In a shared memory, Jeff thinks of his father""s motto:Dad always used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes." Knowing that his father was hiding something, Cal rose and left the table.As he rushed past his brother and Abra outside, Cal sarcastically spoke under his breath to Aron: "You""re the one he wants.Disillusioned, Legolas approached his father Thranduil to tell him that he could no longer return o the Elven kingdom ("I cannot go back").All of the main characters in the fable-like, universal ale had generic titles: the Man, the Woman, the Child and a Tramp.Harper and Powell become prison cellmates in the Moundsville Penitentiary, and during the last weeks of Ben""s life before his execution, the deranged Preacher Powell (who is serving a shorter sentence of thirty days for car theft) listens to Harper""s mumblings and dreams, hanging over the top bunk in the cell.