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‘I see I have shocked you all a little. But to be a poet is to accept the responsibility of speaking the truth! No matter what the cost to my personal safety [...] in matters of men and this world. I’m a poet, not a complete fool…’

— Nick Drake Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

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In these dark times people prefer to look away from everything they would rather not see.

It would be another day ruled by this world’s new gods: gold and power.

Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

Fear, that unknowable and all-powerful enemy, has invaded us all, like a secret army of shadows.

‘Reform of corruption. Civil order to prevent the abuses of power. Justice.’

Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

My dear friend, the world is really one vast marketplace. No one cares where a man is from as long as he has gold in his pocket, or something you want.

Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

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