“This is the last night when he is nowhere. Tomorrow, life will find him again.”
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
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Source: Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours
Song Morning Please Don't Come.
“The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.”
Introducing our Argument
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
Context: We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
“Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.”
El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.
Voces (1943)
The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)
(1835-3) (Vol.45) Deathbed of Alexander the Great
The Monthly Magazine
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Context: [A]ll men die.... A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. but above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man. And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. Someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop — and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable. And what is death? an end to trouble. An end to strife and fear.... Bear this in mind when you decide your future.
