” … I just saw the struts … in the foundation of the skyscraper of human civilization… blow out. And when you see that, you can see the future of the situation immediately. I knew that this was over. A dead planet walking. But that wasn’t the end of the story and there were still a few paths…. that would transform, rather than obliterate… that lethal graveyard of monoliths we called ‘civilization’ in the single most ironic declaration in the history of our species.”

— write the author’s name here