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[danuv]

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.


Always loved that.

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[shara.livejournal.com]

Jesus, now I'm going to be killing myself trying to remember what book that's from...

Garg, must... jog.... memory.....

[danuv.livejournal.com]

T.S. Elliot poem called The Hollow Men. I had to run around online looking for it myself. :)

[shara.livejournal.com]

Really? I think I've seen it elsewhere... at the head of a chapter of a book or somesuch. :) I have vivid memories of being fifteen and thinking that was the most increadible line I'd ever read...

Good Omens or something...

The moral of this story, of course, is that I need to read more Elliot. :/

[danuv.livejournal.com]

Me too. heh. I just plugged it into Google and came up with this (http://www.nd.edu/~mpena/poems/hollow.html) page. It wouldn't surprise me if it were quoted elsewhere.

[wire-mother.livejournal.com]

that is a Very Good Moral for a story to have.