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This is the "Resolute desk"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk

Why bother with this antique? Why even make a desk from a salvaged wreck and present it as a gift from a Queen to a President?

The entire White House is a museum and the Oval Office is a stage with that desk a key piece of the stage design. Maybe the President isn't really the President and maybe the White House isn't really the executive mansion. It doesn't matter, because people act as if it is. In magical occult rituals the image of the thing and the name of the thing become the thing itself.

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Until the whole thing is turned into a burned shroud by a thermonuclear missile, and 10,000 years later is nothing more than a couple of inconsequential bricks that sheep graze over.

Oh Ozymandias, would that you had King C'nut as an advisor!

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