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{{a| | {{a|myth|[[File:Statueoflimitations.png|450px|thumb|center|Two vast & trunkless legs of stone, yesterday]]}}The statue of limitations was a colossal marble erection, five hundred cubits in height, that was expected to bestride the entrance to the Cycladean harbour of Santorini for a thousand years as a primordial testament to the perennial uselessness of humankind. | ||
In a titanic bout of irony, the statue collapsed under its own weight a week or so after completion, killing King Ozymandias who commissioned it and the entire race of proto-Greek epicureans who conceived of it. | In a titanic bout of irony, the statue collapsed under its own weight a week or so after completion, killing King Ozymandias who commissioned it and the entire race of proto-Greek epicureans who conceived of it. | ||