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Balgair on Jan 14, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: He spent his life building a $1M stereo

Good article!

I'm struck by this man's wishes and the wishes of my late family members. They are so similar in that they built these monoliths, only to have them fade into the sand as well. Ozymandias.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

c0pium on Jan 15, 2024 [–]

The irony of that reference is that Ozymandias is one of the most famous people in all of history when called by his Egyptian name. Ramesses II.

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