“Unto Myself I Reared a Monument”

Exegi monumentum.

I have erected a monument to myself, man-made…

While preparing lunch, I thought that, after all, the day and hour will come when I will also be “covered with grave earth.”

How would I manage to record all my “intellectual exploits” on a tombstone?

Answer: No monument is enough for SUCH an enumeration!

Except to build a wall around the perimeter of the cemetery, a kind of Great Cemetery Esprit Wall.

But this is simply impossible from the point of view of financial, legal and technical!

And then an idea came to mind, simple and elegant: To make a tombstone in the form of a BOOK!

A strong vertical axis on which sheets of thin granite or, better and for a long time, stainless steel are attached, on which a text of any length with a list of all “merits” will be engraved. A powerful backlight lamp is also attached to the axis, because it will take a long time to read!

Visitors to my grave will easily “flip through” such pages and read as much as they want. The book will have “Automatic MAGNETIC Fasteners” so that the wind does not flutter the “sheets” of the book and does not beat them against each other. (It is hardly worth relying on the accuracy and attentiveness of the emotional visitors!)

Such a brilliant idea!

I think readers will agree that SUCH a TOMBSTONE has never been in any cemetery in the world and on any grave since the very beginning of the “soil” burial in the history of mankind!

A pioneering invention of world novelty!

That’s what a UNIVERSAL INVENTOR means!

We must urgently run to the Patent Office to patent this great invention.

It’s a pity, there’s no money even to apply!

But such a monument will also turn out to be expensive …

Faciant meliora potentes.

11 X 2024