Meaning of Ozymandias | Babel Free

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A person once famous and respected who has since been utterly forgotten.

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“2013, Will Self, quoted in The Guardian: "Falling short: seven writers reflect⟳ on failure" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/22/falling-short-writers-reflect-failure An unavoidable sequel of the posterity delusion is the death of the writerly self, which depends too much on incoherence and inconsistency to remain⟳ pompous for long. And of course, the vast majority of today's mummified immortals are tomorrow's Ozymandiases.”

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