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volterator ([personal profile] volterator) wrote2010-05-02 02:48 pm

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"What my colleague is getting at," Baron said, "is we're facing a wave of St. Johns. A bit of an epidemic of eschatologies. We live," he said, too flatly for any humour to be audible, "in the epoch of competing ends."

-- Kraken, China MiƩville

[identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com 2010-05-03 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
As books go, this one has worryingly good timing, doesn't it?

(NB am only 200 pages in, so no spoilers if you're ahead of me)