There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.' - Foma Gordeyev. The English music group Led Zeppelin would later name their record label 'Swan Song'.
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