"God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse . . ."
-- Christopher Columbus, 1498
"Here am I, in the Second Year of Genroku, suddenly taking it into my head to make a long journey to the far, northern provinces. I might as well be going to the ends of the earth!"
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