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From: wjhe@hlexa.UUCP (Bill Hery)
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Subject: Re: Quote (Help!)
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 15:39:58 EDT
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> This has always been one of my favorite literary quotes, having seen it
> first in some reading I did in 8th grade.  But, alas, I can't even remember
> the book or author.  It's always bugged me through the years, not being able
> to remember where it came from.  Maybe someone can help me out.
> 
> The quote:
> 
>                "So, this is how the world ends...
>                 not with a bang, but with a whimper." 
> 

It's the last lines of "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot; it can be found in
his collected works, and anthologized in numerous places, such as the Norton 
Anthology that almost everyone used in a college lit. course.  Also, I think
the actual quote is:

	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.

Apropos of that, I saw the credits to "Apolalypse Now" on tv this week (but
missed part of the movie), and they credited Eliot's "The Hollow Men."
Did anyone catch where in the movie it was used?  Was it the bang...whimper
section, the "headpieces filled with straw line," or something else?

Bill Hery