For Volume IV of his Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire wrote an entry for ‘End of the World’.
The greater part of the Greek philosophers held the universe to be eternal both with respect to commencement and duration. But as to this petty portion of the world or universe, this globe of stone and earth and water, of minerals and vapors, which we inhabit, it was somewhat difficult to form an opinion; it was, however, deemed very destructible. It was even said that it had been destroyed more than once, and would be destroyed again.
Let this set you free, writer. The end of the world will come again, and then again. Let it come. Hasten it with your words if you dare.
Reasons to Keep Writing 
We’ve been married to it since the beginning. We hasten it. 🙂
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Oh my, yes. Your comment is an arrow through my heart. Thank you.
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“Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.
The Creation of Éa”
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Thank you Goshawk. Her words are good, aren’t they?
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Incredibly so. She captures the marvel of existence in just a few lines…I keep coming back to them. There is something magical about the teetering spectacle that is the world -suspended in nothing-, or life -surfing on a sea of entropy-.
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Please mortal coil will you stop turning, let human kind fuel its persistent burning…
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thank you, yes city petra, nile delte and many other places, patches of earth on our earth provide evidence, animals too, and much more,
By 2020, everything will be fine.
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By 2020? Fingers crossed.
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In 2020? XXL Yes, keep your fingers crossed worldwide.
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You may like my thoughts in Read After Burnout.com
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I think an auto link has crept into your auto reply. Burnout.com is not the droid you’re looking for.
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excellent
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Love it. It’s kind of like saying what would you write today if you knew tomorrow would never come? I’d write boldly. With passion.
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Go forth brave writer!
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Hasten the end? But what will I write about then? 🙂
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You won’t know until we get there. Adventure friend?
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Ah, you probably just mean ‘the end of the world as we know it’ rather than ‘the end full stop’ then. 🙂 Yes, adventure sounds tempting. 🙂
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Perhaps “the end of the world as we know it” would be a good thing. Clean out all the rubbish and nonsense, all the hate and bigotry, kick the monetary system into touch and start afresh. Oh and thanks for the “like” on my latest attempt at poetry.
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