On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:44 PM, Richard Baker wrote:
As an aside, "Ozymandias" is a corruption of "Usermaatre",
one of the names of Ramesses II, the Great.
Anyone who's seen Egyptian statuary (or read the Wikipedia
entry) knows that the faces of Remesses and other Pharaohs
do not have wrinkled lips or sneers of cold command -- they
look pretty damn mellow, actually.
On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:05 AM, David Hobby wrote:
...
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows: —
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
...
Ouch! This one strains to rhyme so much it hurts
to read it.
It makes me wonder if Smith was a kind of Salieri to
Shelly's Mozart.
Dave
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