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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman (Gospel of Loki is fun but this is a far superior retelling) -
"None of this matters. The world is burning,” says Loki. “The mortals are dead. Midgard is destroyed. I have won.”
“I can see further than you can, Loki. I can see all the way to the world-tree,” Heimdall will tell him with his last breath. “Surtr’s fire cannot touch the world-tree, and two people have hidden themselves safely in the trunk of Yggdrasil. The woman is called Life, the man is called Life’s Yearning. Their descendants will populate the earth. It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.”
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I run really hot and cold on Gaiman - I either love it or hate it. But I really loved
Norse Mythology. I cannot deny his gift for prose and he showed it to its best effect in
Mythology!