Beyond the beginning, nothing. At the beginning, a torrent of universes in a single timeless blink that is… — Iain M. Banks
Beyond the beginning, nothing. At the beginning, a torrent of universes in a single timeless blink that is the mother and father of all explosions and is the opposite of an explosion, destroying nothing – destroying nothing but Nothing – but purely creating; snapping into existence the first semblance of order and chaos and the very idea of time, all at once.
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