“Ultimately, Chaos brings a more profound stagnation than anything it despises in law. It must forever seek more and more sensation, more and more empty marvels, until there is nothing left and it has forgotten what true invention is.”

Source: Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Lake of Voices” (p. 197), Corum, The Queen of the Swords (1971)

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