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Old December 9th, 2008, 03:13 PM

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Default Re: OT: The ambiance and setting (part 3)

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Oh, and for an epithet, and little opening quip, I like this quote:

The Fourth Age: Angel of Progress

His face is turned towards the past... The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole that which has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

-Walter Benjamin

or something like that. a history of war, nations in wreckage, propelling into a jaded future.

EDIT: oops, i meant to edit, not quote.
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