“Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill?”

— Michael Moorcock , The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, The English Assassin (1972)
Source: The Alternative Apocalypse 1 (p. 399)

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