“Destiny’s Champion,
Fate’s fool.
Eternity’s Soldier,
Time’s Tool.”

—  Michael Moorcock, book Phoenix in Obsidian

Book 3 “Visions and Revelations” Epigram (p. 394)
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

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