Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!goodrum From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Quote (Help!) Message-ID: <163@unc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-May-85 19:47:54 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.163 Posted: Mon May 6 19:47:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 9-May-85 01:54:31 EDT References: <5296@tekecs.UUCP> Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 32 Summary: In article wjhe@hlexa.UUCP (Bill Hery) 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." >> > >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 Marlon Brando is reading it towards the end of the movie, right before Martin Sheen offs him. He is reading the opening lines, and gets through the part about "Shape without form, shade without color".