“Destiny was apparently a word describing an individual’s desperate need for certainty.”
Michael Moorcock book The City in the Autumn Stars
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 12 (p. 349)
“It was around 1910/11 that everyone, at every level of the social scale, became aware of those apparent eccentricities that were challenging the precarious certainties of the world. And it was uniquely the painting of a group, not of an individual, that was the cause.”
after 1920, The Epic, From immobile form to mobile form (1925)
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