#Ozymandias quotes serial#
"Do it?" Dan, I'm not a Republic Serial villain.Delivered with a smirk, after Nite Owl asks what he would have done if his hired assassin had shot him first.I suppose I'd have had to catch the bullet, wouldn't I?.Soliloquy to all of his subordinates, as he watches them die from the poison he has provided them.Do you comprehend the triumph which you have contributed, the secret glory that it affords? Do you understand my shame at so inadequate a reward?
Today, that conquest becomes assured, in which your unquestioning assistance has proven invaluable. Thus began my path to conquest … conquest not of men. Adopting Ramses the Second's Greek name and Alexander's free-booting style, I resolved to apply antiquity's teachings to today's world. Ptolemy seeking the universe's pivot from his light-house at Pharos, Eratosthenes, measuring the world using only shadows … their greatest secrets entrusted to their servants, buried alive with them in sand-flooded chambers. What intellectual magnificence their system encouraged. Alexander had merely resurrected an age of Pharaohs, their wisdom, truly immortal, now inspired me. Wading through powdered history, I heard dead kings walking underground, heard fanfares through human skulls. The night before returning to America, I wandered into the desert and ate a ball of hashish I'd been given in Tibet. Disillusioned, but determined, to complete my odyssey, I followed his corpse to its resting place in Alexandria. He'd not united all the world, nor built a unity that would survive him.
Alexander returned to Babylon to die of an infection, aged thirty-three, amongst its ruined ziggurats. Where he'd turned back to quell dissent at home, I travelled on, through China and Tibet, gathering martial wisdom as I went. I followed him through Babylon, up through Kabul to Samarkhand then down the Indus, where he met the first elephants of war. Heading south, he entered Egypt through Memphis, where they proclaimed him son of Amon, judge of the dead, whose name means "hidden one." Under rule from Alexandria, the classic culture of the great Pharaohs was restored. Perhaps because of the challenge it represented: the ancient world's greatest puzzle was there, a knot that couldn't be untied. I followed the path of Alexander's war machine along the black sea coast, imagining his armies taking port after port, blood on ancient bronze.
I wanted to have something to say should we meet in the hall of legends. I wanted to match his accomplishment, bringing an age of illumination to a benighted world. Next, I departed for Northern Turkey, to retrace my hero's steps. to demonstrate the possibility of achieving anything starting from nothing. perhaps unnecessarily, though who can judge such things? Yet how he nearly approached his vision of a united world! I was determined to measure my success against his. Ruling without barbarism! At Alexandria, he instituted the ancient world's greatest seat of learning. He died, thirty-three, ruling most of the civilized world. A young army commander, he'd swept along the coasts of Turkey and Phoenicia, subduing Egypt before turning his armies towards Persia. The only human being with whom I felt any kinship died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Faced with difficult choices, I knew nobody whose advice might prove useful. Do you understand? My intellect set me apart. My inheritance offered life long idle luxury, and yet, needing nothing, I burned with the paradoxical urge to do everything. By seventeen, my parents were both dead, and I faced a different decision. Perhaps I decided to be intelligent rather than otherwise? Perhaps we all make such decisions, though that seems a callous doctrine. What caused such precociousness? My parents were intellectually unremarkable, possessing no obvious genetic advantages. Entering school, I was already exceptionally bright, my perfect scores on early test papers arousing such suspicion that I carefully achieved only average grades thereafter. My parents reached America the year I was born, 1939.What in my life, does not deserve celebrating?.The ancient world's greatest puzzle was there, a knot that couldn't be untied. Quotes Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias My intellect set me apart.
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