History Quotes / SceneryGorn

Back in its day, at least, it would have been a monument to wealth and beauty. In the present it was a castle that had been killed. Many of its white and shining towers had crumbled and fallen down in miserable chunks. Jungling overgrowth rose from the sea and wraped around the base of the building, both green slimes and thick vines. The gardens were gre, filmy canopies of dead trees and plants. They had overtaken the windows, the balconies, the balustrades, and clung there and died; they covered much of the frontage in a secretive mist of expired matter. Gold veins shone dully in the dirty white walls. The docking bay must have also been elegant in its era, a huge landing swath that could have held a hundred ships at a time; now ninety-two of the cradles were desolate and filthy. The metal was caked with salt from the water, salt that now assaulted Gideon's nose: a thick, briny scent, overpowering and wild. The whole place had the look of a picked-at body. But hot damn! What a beautiful corpse."''

->''"They were on the enormous, metal-plated dock of what must have surely been the most impressive structure the First House had ever built. It might have been the most impressive structure ''anyone'' had ever built. Gideon didn't have a lot to go on. Rearing up before them was a palace, a fortress, of white and shining stone. It spread out on the surface of the water like an island. You couldn't see over it and you could harly see around it. It lapped back in terraces of what must have once been fabulous gardens. It rose up in gracious towers that hur the eye with their slenderness and precision. It was a monument to wealth and beauty.\\

->''"They were on the enormous, metal-plated dock of what must have surely been themost impressive structure the First House had ever built. It might have been the most impressive structure ''anyone'' had ever built. Gideon didn't have a lot to go on. Rearing up before them was a palace, a fortress, of white and shining stone. It spread out on the surface of the water like an island. You couldn't see over it and you could harly see around it. It lapped back in terraces of what must have once been fabulous gardens. It rose up in gracious towers that hur the eye with their slenderness and precision. It was a monument to wealth and beauty.\\

-->'''[[Website/{{Cracked}} Robert Brockway]]''' on waking up in the dystopian future ([[HumanPopsicle though he doesn't know it yet]]).

->"Can you imagine this place in its time? Hordes of bugs travelling about the Kingdom; stag bells ringing; the station bustling with activity and life. Now only our like even know it exists. That's a special thing I suppose, to cherish these sights, even in their decay. Is it that, just faintly, you can still hear the echo of the bells?"

-->-- ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', "Fit the Eighth"

-->--''Literature/TheKillingStar''

Further west, two doves had found pyramid-shaped mounds near the place where Cairo used to be. Perhaps because they had not been directly under an epicenter, together with their combination of resilient geometry and immense bulk, the Pyramids had withstood the planetary shocks. Just barely.

-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Undead Army Book (4th edition)''

-->-- '''Lugo''' commenting on a sandstorm-wrecked Dubai, ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''

-->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho076Singularity Singularity]]''

''Natalia Pushkin:''' In its own way, [[JustBeforeTheEnd Ember]] has a bleak sort of beauty, an endless vista of ruined stone and corroded metal from horizon to horizon.\\

-->-- Just one of many examples from ''Fanfic/TheLastGreatTimeWar''

-->--[[OzzyAndDrix Ozzy]] providing commentary on Hector's nightmares.

--> ''Fanfic/TheLastGreatTimeWar''

->--[[OzzyAndDrix Ozzy]] providing commentary on Hector's nightmares.

->“Jesus, I wound up in Baltimore.”

->“Jesus, I wound up in Baltimore.”
-->'''[[{{Cracked}} Robert Brockway]]''' on waking up in the dystopian future ([[HumanPopsicle though he doesn't know it yet]]).

-->RobertBrockway on waking up in the dystopian future ([[HumanPopsicle though he doesn't know it yet]]).