A Cultural Moment In Guild Wars
Guild Wars – Guise Dugal – 2005-08-29 -
Guise and party in Crystal Desert (Salt Flats)
Originally uploaded by Guise Dugal.
It might be the recent Ozy and Millie-fest, but when I saw this in Guild Wars I was struck with the words of Shelley.
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- - Percy Bysshe Shelley
OzymandiasI 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.’
You know, I think you’re right in thinking of Shelly for that. The coincidence is astounding. I though I was the only one who read poetry…..XD
Once my house was accosted by crows and I couldn’t help thinking about Wallace Stevens’ “13 Ways of Looking t a Blackbird”, stanza 11:
XI
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.
After which I was inspired to write a video game version of 13 Ways. Yes. I am obsessed.
There is actually a part in the desert where two legs actually do stand up with no body, but sadly no head nearby.
My only regret is that I have the memory of a 100 year old alzheimer patient who had a six weed joint habit for sixty years and suffered a stroke in the middle of a paragliding accident. I can barely remembering much of poems or scripts, just the gist and imagery.
I very much read stuff and listen to music while all the time going nuts with mental imagery. I’ll listen to a song and somebody will ask me what I thought, most of the time I’ll describe a bloody story not a review.
A rare talent. I can’t write without music, which is why I organize “soundtracks” for series I write. I need to make more for my own personal album….