"They could pray, they had the illusion that a divine plan governed this best of all possible worlds, while I was left in bleak, stormy limbo, dismally aware that the universe makes no sense and that the only universal truth there is is that Entropy Eventually Wins."
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Chapter 3, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (p. 76)
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