Book of the New Sun

"We've got the idea of abaya taking his name from the legend of this giant eel which causes floods Right we get this idea of Oh from eschatology a genesis that the return of the conciliator will be It will be the end of the world in a sense Literally an apocalyptic scenario" "Life can only come from death Yeah And that we have to grow out of our past And we have to do pain to progress and we have toDo damage to progress But it is through that progress that the dead are given their emancipation"