Well, there's a reason I quoted Yeats' The Second Coming above, since that's the explicitly stated theme of Angel s4... :)
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. (...) And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Date: 2011-03-31 09:11 am (UTC)The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(...)
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?