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 As the marble hunks fell like great meteors into the sea around them the people cried, “hark! [[Chicken licken|The sky is falling upon our heads]]!”
-Their lawyers said, “well, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
+Their lawyers said, “well, don’t say we didn’t warn you.”
-The administrators of Ozymandias’ estate lodged a claim against the sculptor, but due to a succession of bureaucratic misunderstandings and clerical mishaps, delayed filing their claim until, in a further compounding irony, it was thrown out by the Greek courts as being time-barred under the [[Statute of Limitations]].
+In the ensuing weeks and months, administrators of King Ozymandias’ estate lodged a claim against the sculptor, but due to a succession of bureaucratic misunderstandings and clerical mishaps, delayed filing their claim until, in a further compounding irony, it was thrown out by the Greek courts as being time-barred under the [[Statute of Limitations]].
 In a final irony, none of the people responsible for either the commissioning of the sculpture, its [[negligent]] construction much less the pursuit of the claim felt the twisted lip or sneer of cold command (that is, no-one got sacked), and instead enjoyed long, rewarding careers in [[middle management]].