I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
You know, when I first read this, I was struck by the irony and assumed
the moral was "pride comes before a fall", but on second thoughts I
think it may be "you can be immortalised by the media, even if you're
ultimately crap".
I like to think that Ozymandias had a sense of humour and only actually
built a ruin in the middle of a desert in the first place. I plan to do
the same. I plan to **** around all my life and then on my tombstone my
eulogy will read, "Nexie, Son of God, curer of cancer and greatest man
that ever lived". In 2,000 year's time I'll be bigger than Jesus.
I bet David Koresh wished he had publicists half as good as the Big J.
From Wikipedia:
"Vernon Wayne Howell was born on August 17, 1959 in Houston, Texas to a
not-quite-15-year-old single mother. He never knew his father and was
raised by his grandparents. Koresh described his early childhood as
lonely, saying that the other kids teased him and called him "Vernie".
As a young boy, he was abused by his stepfather. A poor student because
of dyslexia, Vernon dropped out of high school. By 18, he was working as
a carpenter.
When he was 20, Howell joined his mother's church, the Seventh-day
Adventist Church. He fell in love with a 15-year-old girl who became
pregnant, but marriage was forbidden by the girl's father and church
elders. Vernon began to challenge the elders on many points of scripture
and was expelled for being a bad influence on young people.
Shortly thereafter, he went to Hollywood hoping to become a rock and
roll guitarist; however, nothing came of this. In 1981 he moved to Waco,
Texas where he joined the Branch Davidians, a religious sect which had
split from the Seventh-day Adventists. They had established their
headquarters at a ranch about 10 miles out of Waco, which they called
the Mount Carmel Center (after the Biblical Mount Carmel, Israel), in
1955."
Shoulda used the "virgin birth" jape and a few CGI effects in my opinion.
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