There was a huge sadness in it—the little men of today, gnawing apart the mighty works they no longer… — Poul Anderson
There was a huge sadness in it—the little men of today, gnawing apart the mighty works they no longer understood. In a few hundred years, or a few thousand, what did it matter? Nothing would be left, nothing but rubble and waving grass and the wild dogs howling where men had once lived.
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