Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
Source: My World and Welcome to It, 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'
-- James Thurber, (Dec 8 1894-1961), US novelist, humorist, cartoonist; He is noted for his whimsical writings, cartoons; his best known short story is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 1945.