A Sound of Sheer Silence

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. --"Ozymandias", by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1876) Tonight, Northwestern (2-1) opens its new football stadium against Penn State (3-1).  For the second week in a row, it is the Friday night FOX game that starts at 8 pm Eastern.  Last week, Northwestern gave defending champion Indiana a big time scare, losing 29-23.  This is especially noteworthy given that t...