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    11 hours ago

    The rough beast hasn’t slouched towards Bethlehem to be born quite yet. Its hour hasn’t come, I guess

    If you want an apocalyptic vision, Yeats’s Second Coming is far superior to the schizo-rantings and low-effort numerology of John the Divine, just as the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are better scriptures than the canonical ones.