(Images of Martyrs burned, Leaders assassinated. Images of Great Cathedrals being
built up and slowly falling into decay and ruin. Dreams becoming corrupt. Empires falling.
Creations on the brink of completion, destroyed. Flags proudly raised, then
burned.)
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(Virtues - Justice, Truth, etc. - like monumental marble Venuses. Time
and the elements erode their features. They lose their arms, their noses, their faces. Eventually
they stand as sooty crumbling torsos which collapse into rubble, and dust drifting away on the
wind.) |