Friday, January 3, 2003

Egypt Comments

Rating: 2.8

Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes;
I seem in some waste solitude to stand
Once ruled of Cheops; upon either hand
A dark illimitable desert lies,
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Tony Arnold 27 September 2016

Makes me think of earlier 19th century fascination, sometimes a bit forced, with scenes of bleakness & doom: see Frankenstein, works of Poe, also Ozymandias of course.

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