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{{a|myth|[[File:Ironmountain1.jpg|thumb|center|400px|<small>''And they will open the rear gates to the Citadel and they will cast you out. And they will give unto you your cardboard box. And you will be nameless. And you will have no future. And you will have no past. And you will be as barren as the dirt upon the badlands of the Earth.''</small> St. Pimco, 14:1-2.]]}}{{Quote|You can’t run away forever, | {{a|myth|[[File:Ironmountain1.jpg|thumb|center|400px|<small>''And they will open the rear gates to the Citadel and they will cast you out. And they will give unto you your cardboard box. And you will be nameless. And you will have no future. And you will have no past. And you will be as barren as the dirt upon the badlands of the Earth.''</small> St. Pimco, 14:1-2.]]}}{{Quote| | ||
:— Steinman J in {{casenote|Bad|Goode}}}} | ''You can’t run away forever, <br> | ||
Ahh, the good old days, when the [[abyss]] stared resolutely back into you. | ''But there’s nothing wrong with getting a good head start. | ||
'':— Steinman J in {{casenote|Bad|Goode}}}} | |||
Ahh, the good old days, when the [[abyss]] stared resolutely back into you. We have our foundational myths. They tell us wherefrom we have come, and whereto we are going. | |||
The Norse Gods had Valhalla. [[Toto]] had [[Olympus]].<ref>Kansas, shurely? — Ed.</ref> Middle Earth had Mount Doom. The fallen warriors of the financial sector have The Iron Mountain. | |||
===In market mythology=== | ===In market mythology=== | ||
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For it is written, in St. Pimco’s letter to the Hypocrites: | For it is written, in St. Pimco’s letter to the Hypocrites: | ||
{{quote|{{font|garamond}}<sup>1</sup> And they will open the rear gates to the Citadel and they will cast you out. And they will give unto you your cardboard box. <br><sup>2</sup> And you will be nameless. And you will have no future. And you will have no past. And you will be as barren as the dirt upon the badlands of the Earth. <br><sup>3</sup> And they will fireth not their cannons. And they will singeth not their lamentations. For they will acknowledgeth not your time on Earth. <br><sup>4</sup> And they will wipe the record clean of you. And expunge you utterly: your saintly works; the temples you built; the monuments you erected: all of yours that was great, all that was okay, and the whole massèd | {{quote|{{font|garamond}}<sup>1</sup> And they will open the rear gates to the Citadel and they will cast you out. And they will give unto you your cardboard box. <br><sup>2</sup> And you will be nameless. And you will have no future. And you will have no past. And you will be as barren as the dirt upon the badlands of the Earth. <br><sup>3</sup> And they will fireth not their cannons. And they will singeth not their lamentations. For they will acknowledgeth not your time on Earth. <br><sup>4</sup> And they will wipe the record clean of you. And expunge you utterly: your saintly works; the temples you built; the monuments you erected: all of yours that was great, all that was okay, and the whole massèd horde that was drivel. You shall be that massèd horde, and it shall be you, for it is thine handmaiden of dreck. And they will destroy those vain memorials to your works: they will tear them, brick from brick, until nothing beside remains but moulding rubble strewn across a salted wasteland. <br><sup>5</sup> And your legacy shall be the atoms: the dust that blows, the silt that accretes, the dunes that form from the anonymised powder of countless forsaken souls like yours. <br><sup>6</sup> For it is written: The Iron Mountain shall be the place from which no mortal soul returns, and nothing worthwhile remains. <br><sup>7</sup> We are but dust.}} | ||
===Physical description=== | ===Physical description=== | ||