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| Roughly three hundred years ago, at
a family gathering, Destruction announced that he would be abdicating his
realm, but not passing the mantle to another.
When Destruction took a little time to visit the new incarnation of Dream, during the funeral for a lost point of view, he said "You know you could leave all this. It'll carry on all right without you. Come out with me and walk the stars. It's astonishing how much trouble one can get into if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best."1 It seems that some time in the last few hundred years, perhaps coinciding with The Enlightenment in human history (?), Destruction felt that humanity was quite capable of looking after its own mess and destroying for itself. Two World Wars later, it is understandable that Gaiman would not want to explain these away as Destruction's influence, but let the blame lie with humanity ... |
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