Memory Serves." Duplicitous couplet.

“I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.”

“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like m…”

“science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destructi…”

“...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”