“I would be grateful if I was allowed to work out my own destiny for once,” I said. “For good or ill.”

— Michael Moorcock , Erekosë

Book 3 “Visions and Revelations” Chapter 4 “The Lady of the Chalice” (p. 416)
Erekosë, Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

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