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content/essays/ozymandias.md

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 practicality: high
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+<figure class="poem-excerpt">
+<blockquote>
+<p>My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;<br>
+Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!<br>
+Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br>
+Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare<br>
+The lone and level sands stretch far away.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<figcaption><a href="/poetry/ozymandias.html">Ozymandias</a> — Percy Bysshe Shelley</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
 ::: dropcap
-*"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"* The name is a joke. Every
+The name is a joke. Every framework is a monument that its author believes will outlast the work produced in it. The
-framework is a monument that its author believes will outlast the work produced in it. The name is also a warning:
+name is also a warning: the writing you put in a framework might actually outlast the framework itself, which is why
-the writing you put in a framework might actually outlast the framework itself, which is why the framework should be
+the framework should be small, coherent, and legible — not a cathedral built to impress.
-small, coherent, and legible — not a cathedral built to impress.
 :::
 
 The core of this website has been extracted and released as [Ozymandias](https://git.levineuwirth.org/neuwirth/ozymandias), a static site framework under the MIT license. It is the full pipeline: the Haskell build system, the Pandoc filter stack, all templates, all stylesheets, all client-side JavaScript — minus my personal content. If you want a website that works like this one and want to understand exactly how it works, Ozymandias is where to start.

content/index.md

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 :::
 
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content/poetry/ozymandias.md

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+---
+title: Ozymandias
+date: 1818-01-11
+poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley
+abstract: I met a traveller from an antique land, / Who said — "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert."
+tags: [poetry]
+---
+
+I met a traveller from an antique land,
+Who said — "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
+Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
+Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
+And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
+Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
+Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
+The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
+And on the pedestal, these words appear:
+My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
+Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
+Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
+Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
+The lone and level sands stretch far away."