"There came a time when the old gods died!"There is something so bizarrely, wonderfully eloquent about these opening words of the Fourth World saga's flagship title, something that sums up the condition of our culture in the twentieth century. We had lost the old beliefs. There is also something hopeful about the exclamation point. Somehow, recognizing the death of old gods as a crisis situation, worthy of exclamation, seems more proactive than a more passive period would have been. This is not an admission of despair and defeat, but a call to life, a call to activity, a rekindling. Already by the end of the sentence we are looking ahead to how to fix the situation. With the old gods dead, new gods are needed. Or really, perhaps the old gods again in new forms. Finnegans wake.
"No more glorious sight has ever greeted any eyes than that of New Genesis."
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