“We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.”
Paolo Bacigalupi (1972) American science fiction and fantasy writer
"The Pasho", Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004
“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”
Source: King Lear
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