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From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum)
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Subject: Re: Quote (Help!)
Message-ID: <162@unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 19:40:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 19:40:57 1985
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In article <tekecs.5296> waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) writes:
>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." 
>
>
>                            -- Walt Tucker
>                               Tektronix, Inc.


The quote is from "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot, but I don't think you've
quoted by correctly. If memory serves me correctly, it's

		" 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 with a whimper."

Eliot was trying to imitate the rhythm of such children's songs as " Here
We Go Round The Mulberry Bush".