Tombstone
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All the old graves were sunken in, there was not a
tombstone
on the place; round-topped, worm-eaten boards staggered over the graves, leaning for support and finding none.
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Your friends and family will be gathered in the cemetery, and there beside your gravesite will be a tombstone, and inscribed on that
tombstone
it will say, "Here lies a distinguished engineer, who invented Velcro."
But what that
tombstone
should have said, in an alternative lifetime, what it should have said if it was your highest expression of talent, was, "Here lies the last Nobel Laureate in Physics, who formulated the Grand Unified Field Theory and demonstrated the practicality of warp drive."
It was that the Nobel Prize was the
tombstone
on all great work, and it resonated because I had won 35 out of 36 contests that I'd entered over 11 years, and it made me bananas.
So I took one "no" off a
tombstone
from the Islamic Museum in Cairo, and I added a message to it: "no to military rule."
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