9. Percy Shelley was among the poets most influenced by new awareness of the past as ruins: "Ozymandias" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias …
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As a New Yorker, Jack should have known that's too big to make the Statue of Liberty
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I am interested by the varying scales attributed to the statue in these different works.
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Kirby didn't try to be accurate - just cared about visual impact.
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C'mon you can get to 20!
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Neat thread, thank you! More on the trope of future (postcolonial?) visitors assessing a ruined metropolis (London): http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Stout65-t2-body-d2.html …
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Which is to say, the Victorians already understood it as a highly fertile and movable trope, as it has indeed proven to be.
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How about Leon Varjian's great prank: submerging Lady Liberty in the frozen waters of Madison's Lake Mendoza? http://wuwm.com/post/how-wisconsin-students-pulled-one-greatest-college-pranks-ever#stream/0 …pic.twitter.com/T5iyqY7f8G
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In the book of the Time Machine the traveler learns the bones he's looking at are the dinosaur bones of the British Museum of his time.
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