Sunday, March 9, 2008

363 Days Until Watchmen....

I'm hyped, in 363 days Alan Moore's opus is made into a full length feature film, Everyone is skeptical, and I'm pretty sure after I get over the initial thrill of seeing these characters on film, I may hate it, but before then I'm willing to get myself jazzed. So with that being said weekly I will post not Watchmen news, but things that enhance the total Watchmen experience... lets start with this:


Ozymandias
by Percy Shelley


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 shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked 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."


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