Self-concerned prophetic writings are always a little wacky, both when they come shockingly true . . .

I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future—there will be books written about Harry—every child in our world will know his name!

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 13

. . . and turn hilariously false:

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

— Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

There are few things funnier than seeing the above line graven in huge letters on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial.