/lit/ - Literature

From the Egyptian literary text ''Dialogue between a Man and his Soul'', ca. 1800BC:

They who built in granite,
who erected halls in excellent tombs of fine construction,
so that the builders should become gods,
their offering-stones are desolate,
like the oblivious dead,
who died on the riverbank for lack of a survivor, when the flood has taken its toll,
and the sunlight likewise,
to whom only the fishes at the water's edge talk!

From the Book of Job, ca. 400BC:

Why did I not die from the womb,
from the belly come out, breathe my last?
Why did knees welcome me,
and why breasts, that I should suck?
For now I would lie and be still,
would sleep and know repose
with kings and the councillors of earth,
who build ruins for themselves,
or with princes, possessors of gold,
who fill their houses with silver.

>Job 3:13-14
For now I would lie and be still,
would sleep and know repose
with kings and the councillors of earth,
who build ruins for themselves(...)

Something about the microcosmic Ozymandias in verse 14 has always struck me as particularly poetic.

How would you spend the last day of your life if the world ended tomorrow ?