Apocalypse Quote by Lance Morrow

“Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable”

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Apocalypse Connected Continents Eden Ends Extremes Forests Memories Miserable Night Seems Vivid

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