"If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe
and
lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning
horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who."
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.