The assumption that we would ever be called upon to perform… - Michael Shea

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The assumption that we would ever be called upon to perform this second task now appeared quite clearly to me as the most extravagant folly, based on a wild delusion conceived by a raving idiot.

Michael Shea

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Michael Shea (July 3, 1946 – February 16, 2014) was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author.

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It was more than sad, the eternal unteachability of youth.

Is it not unsettling to consider the blind unlikelihoods that shape one’s fate?

It is a bitter thing that each of us must finally be blown out like a candle, and have the unique ardor of his individual flame choked off, and sucked utterly away like smoke in the dark. Do we ever accept this in our hearts, any of us? The waste of knowledge! It never ceases to be...infuriating.

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