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.ozymandias_percy bysshe 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."

.the laughing heart_charles bukowski

.your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can't beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

.1977 voyager 1 message_jimmy Carter

.we cast this message into the cosmos
.it is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed.
.of the 200 billion
stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some -- perhaps many
may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations
.if one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can
understand these recorded contents, here is our message:


.this is a present from a small distant world,
a token of our sounds, our science, our images,
our music, our thoughts and our feelings.

.we are attempting to survive our time so we may
live into yours.

.we hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations.

.this record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.