“In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.”

—  Michael Moorcock

Source: Book 3, Chapter 7 “Project NFB” (p. 135), The Warlord of the Air (1971)

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