The Beginning of the End

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"The End of the world was at hand, but it would not be by fire... or by ice. There would be no Armageddon, no Ragnarok, no Gotterdammerung.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--Death, Famine, Plague, and War--would not ride, nor would there be an Apocalypse for them to ride to. The world would not end with a bang, or even a whimper; in fact, the end of the world would begin rather simply...
...with a Hole."

--from the introduction to Fixing a Hole.