Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains Of The Day' is a work of luminous beauty. You never cease to be amazed by the sheer moral clarity of the prose. This 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel was made into a fine movie in 1993 by the renowned Merchant-Ivory production, receiving eight Academy Awards nominations. I saw the movie a few years ago, and now reading the book. As so often happens when you have seen the movie first before reading the book on which it is based on; I cannot get rid of the image and voice of Sir Anthony Hopkins as the extremely conscientious butler Mr. Stevens is meditating on his lifetime of dedicated service at the Darlington Hall, and reflecting what in the end has it all amounted to.