Canto X/1 The tombs of the Epicureans are here seen as the very books in which, denying the afterlife, they signed and sealed their future doom. The two best-known Epicurean tags are prominently featured, Horace's Carpe diem and its English equivalent 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. . .' The latter made the subsidiary quotation from `Citizen Kane' (Rosebud. . .) an irresistible echo. Other authors are featured as well as some light hearted personal references; one page, with the words 'Surprise Surprise . . .' written on it stands for a joke greeting to new Epicurean arrivals, who, having just died in a confident disbelief in the immortality of the soul, awake to find themselves in an eternity of painful survival. Books can dig a grave, as Strabo, Polystratus, etc. find out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.