Useless, useless

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(03-07-2013 05:00 PM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  Not sure how close Herold was to the dying assassin, but I certainly agree that Booth was talking about their undertaking being useless.

I concur with most written accounts--Booth looking at his paralyzed hands as he is dying and calling them useless.

In a dramatic and metaphorical sense his paralyzed hands may have represented to him the entire undertaking--at one time working well in presumed glorious actions and now powerless with the realization that it has all been useless. No glory has come from their action and they will be forever remembered as useless tools of shame.