What do we leave behind us when we die, asked the Prime Minister? Our deeds are quickly forgotten. Our goods soon decay. Our children, our finest products, soon become their own people. It’s our words that endure, Tony Abbott said, especially our printed words. He was speaking in Parliament House at his launching of A Better Class of Sunset, a collection of the writings – the words – of the late Christopher Pearson, the conservative essayist and columnist who died in June last year.