To what base uses may we return! Why may not imagination trace the
noble dust of Alexander, till it find it stopping a bung-hole? As
thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to
dust; the dust is earth: of earth we make loam. And why of that loam,
whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel?
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet
-- Act v, Sc. 1
