“In fifteen billion years did spirit out of less than dust evolve,” he said. “In fifteen billion more will not this universe of stars to less than dust return? Whence did it come? What is there when it is gone?”

— Norman Spinrad, book The Void Captain's Tale

Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 10 (p. 124)

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