“Wendell: ‘It’s a mess, ain’t it, sheriff ?’
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: ‘If it ain’t, it’ll do ‘til a mess gets here.’”
- Cormac McCarthy, No country for old men.
The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the sonnet Ozymandias in a good-natured contest with rival Horace Smith. Shelley apparently began writing the poem after the British Museum announced that it had acquired a huge fragment of a statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which was shipped over to London in 1821. Many believe that Shelley was inspired by this seven ton portion of that original statue.
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