“Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.”

—  Dean Koontz , book The Taking

Part 1, Chapter 1
The Taking (2004)

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