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1 " Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious pathogen, including the Black Death of the Middle Ages. Epidemiologists think that smallpox killed roughly one billion people during its last hundred years of activity onearth. "
― Richard Preston , The Demon in the Freezer
2 " Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth. "
― R.E. Vance , GoneGodWorld, Episode One (Paradise Lot, #1.1)
3 " When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final. "
― Catherynne M. Valente , Deathless
