Memorable passages from the concluding section:
"Entropy had reached a maximum, the energy sources were used up, the universe was dead." (p. 235)
"The universe was mortal, but it was a phoenix which would never really die." (p. 236)
"...the continuum was spherical in all four dimensions. In any case - if you travelled long enough, through space of time, you got back to your starting point." (p. 238)
(That should probably read "...space or time..." I will check the text in Past Times.)
"Grayness was outside - for the last time." (ibid.)
"The hill seemed strangely unreal, after all that he had seen from it, the whole enormous tomorrow of the cosmos. He would never quite fit into the little round of days that lay ahead." (p. 239)
That recalls Olaf Stapledon's narrator returning home at the end of Star Maker.
"...he thought he heard [Taury's] voice whisper in the cool wet wind..." (ibid.)
There has to be wind. For this peaceful conclusion, the wind is cool, not cold, as it had been/was to be in 50,000 AD, and it does not roar or shout but whispers.
"It was enough for a mortal man." (p. 220)
"'I guess I must be a little early.'" (ibid.)
- the concluding sentence.
See also Cosmic Beginnings.
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