Was Ozymandias less widely known in 1986 such that it would be more believable Adrian Veidt would just go "oh, cool version of Ramses, I will use it as my name and it will certainly not connote crushing hubris and the ultimate vanity of all aspirations"?
I'm going to suggest that perhaps you are assuming a greater penetration of (admittedly, not obscure) Percy Bysshe Shelley into the broader culture than might reasonably be expected.
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That's what I'm not sure of! I would instinctively say that's a very famous poem that most adult readers of Watchmen would know. They used it to market the last season of Breaking Bad! I'm just wondering if that's a recent development.
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I mean, Veidt should *certainly* know it, but that wouldn't necessarily matter if it plays as obscure to the reader. In 2019 I don't think that it does, although I'm willing to be convinced.
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