quasi-eternity

Updated: May 6, 2025

A number of colossal statues, which lay asleep beneath this shroud of earth and sand, have been brought back to the light, set upright again and have resumed their watch in the intimidating thoroughfares for a new period of quasi-eternity. It is scarcely known to what depth the debris and the ruins descend.

Pierre Loti - Egypt (La Mort de Philae)