““Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?”
“The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.””

—  Michael Moorcock , book The City in the Autumn Stars

Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 377)

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