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“We have served our purpose; made a shining time between the Dark and the Dark. Merlin said that it would be as though all things drew on to the golden glory of the sunset. But then it will all be over."
Lancelot said, "We shall have made such a blaze, that men will remember us on the other side of the Dark.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

“The short verses composed by the colon bacillus were extremely banal and unsuitable for recitation, since—for obvious reasons—bacteria knew nothing about English phonetics. Hence, they could master the meter of verse, but not the rules of rhyming;”
― Stanisław Lem, Imaginary Magnitude

“He owns form," "doesn't he?" "The tyrant" "owns form”
― Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette

“Let's say it once and for all: in the future mankind was immersed in the most endearing error a present mind can conceive. The past awaits us with open arms: toward it, we throw ourselves with our hearts full of faith in God, the source of all reason and justice. The path of the people is a backward path that goes forward, in a time that comes from the future and will end in the past, because the time of our countrymen more than path is time, and more than time is path.”
― Ángel Bonomini, The Novices of Lerna