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[E]schatology is stretched over the whole of history, the End is present in every moment, the types always relevant.

— Frank Kermode The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the History of Fiction (2000)

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[A]lthough for us the End has perhaps lost its naive imminence, its shadow still lies on the crises of our fictions; we may speak of it as immanent.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the History of Fiction (2000)

We project ourselves–a small, humble, elect perhaps–past the End, so as to see the structure whole, a thing we cannot do from our spot of time in the middle...

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the History of Fiction (2000)

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