"This is how the world ends - not with a bang but with a whimper"09 October 2015Factual, Sci-Fi20 mins
T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then adding: "Not with a bang but a whimper."
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