![]() So there is only the starting quotation mark (") for each quote. The quotes are not nested properly, as they never end. ![]() The fact that Ponytail is now telling Cueball the story of this recursion implies that she is yet another layer of this recursion and is herself "a traveler from an antique land." So it is entirely possible that one day, after the fall of this civilization, the poem will fill the same role for it that the statue filled for Ozymandias' civilization, and would therefore be referenced by a traveler from an antique land who stumbled across it. However, the poem itself, like the statue it describes,can be thought of as a pinnacle of achievement for its civilization- in this case, English civilization. The poem Ozymandias is about the last vestiges of a once-great civilization that has since been lost to history. In the original poem, the text on the pedestal is itself recounted as part of the traveler's story, so there are already two levels of quotation, and the pedestal's inscription describes Ozymandias as the "king of kings", which, being itself a recursion, gives rise to the comic's joke. The title text once again plays with recursion, but instead of it being a string of travelers talking about travelers, it is a string of pedestals that are quoting pedestals. ![]() However, instead of continuing on with the poem, Ponytail is going through a recursion where the information is always being quoted from "a traveler from an antique land" who recounts what they were told by a similar traveler from another antique land. Ponytail is reciting the opening of " Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (see text below). Title text: And on the pedestal these words appear: "And on the pedestal these words appear: "And on the pedestal these words appear: "And. ![]()
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