People need foundation myths, some imprint of year zero, a bolt that secures the scaffolding that in turn holds fast the entire architecture of reality, of time: memory-chambers and oblivion-cellars, walls between eras, hallways that sweep us on towards the end-days and the coming whatever-it-is. We see things shroudedly, as through a veil, an over-pixellated screen. When the shapeless plasma takes on form and resolution, like a fish approaching us through murky waters or an image looming into view from noxious liquid in a darkroom, when it begins to coalesce into a figure that's discernible, if ciphered, we can say: This is it, stirring, looming even if it isn't really, if it's all just ink-blots. Tom McCarthy
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This quote has a lot of meaning in it, for me it means that at the end of the world, no matter how bad it is, people are going to have something to look forward to after they are gone. It can be anything but everyone knows there is something after this world. At the end of the world, people are going to be happy because they will know that they did everything in their power to make the world a better place. They will have accomplished something that they will never forget.

Source: Satin Island

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