Elizabeth Gilbert, in her book, "Eat, Pray, Love" she writes about the Augusteum, the ruins in Rome of the tomb of Caesar Augustus, ruins that seemingly have withstood much in the time it's been around...
"The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.
"Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough - but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository.
"Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous & endless waves of transformation."
This speak to anyone besides me?
to see a pic of it, google Augusteum, Rome
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