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This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. --- Excerpt from The Hollow Men
by mroche 2y ago
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Excerpt from The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot[0].
I'll have to add it to the page, but it was also used as the introduction for The Compound by S.A. Bodeen[1]. It's an interesting young adult novel about a family living underground in a state of the art bomb shelter after a nuclear attack occurs.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men
[1] https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-compound-s-a-bodeen/15548537?ean=9780312578602 https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-compound-s-a-bodeen/1554853...
- CamperBob2 2y agoWe would also have accepted, "The best lack all conviction / While the worst are filled with passionate intensity." Even though that's Yeats.