There's a little book I'm thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

Foma Gordeyev (1899) also translated as The Man Who Was Afraid; the English music group Led Zeppelin would later name their record label "Swan Song".