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{{quote|"Of what import are brief, nameless lives... to '''[[Planet Eater|Galactus]]'''??"|[[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', (Vol. I, No. 49, April 1966)}}
{{quote|"Of what import are brief, nameless lives... to '''[[Planet Eater|Galactus]]'''??"
|[[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', (Vol. I, No. 49, April 1966)}}


{{quote|They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. ''Fuká americanus'', or more colloquially, fuká-- generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World.}}
{{quote|They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. ''Fuká americanus'', or more colloquially, fuká-- generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World.}}
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