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" 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. "
Ethics & Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect - Page 60
by Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 199 pages
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Espuela de Plata. Cuaderno Bimestral de Poesia. La Habana 1939-1941

Gema Areta Marigó - 2003 - 234 pages
...sombra de Dios con que se dora Toda sombra hominal que en nada estuvo. Po ema CPara Horado Ledón). This Is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. TS Eliot. Ha de nacer el pez para escalar tu rostro Y la vestimenta fundida en cuerpos de amazonas...
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The Reader, Volume 1

1925 - 638 pages
...Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass, Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar. This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper. Like Webster, he is much possessed by death, and sees the skull beneath the skin ; And breastless creatures...
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Modern American Poets

Conrad Aiken - 1927 - 394 pages
...For Thine is Life is For Thine is the 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. 307 CONRAD AIKEN SAMADHI Take then the music; plunge in the thickest of it,— Thickest, darkest, richest;...
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Hearing the Word of God: Reflections on the Sunday Readings Year C

John R. Donahue - 2003 - 154 pages
...between the times, not in anticipation of the end of time. TS Eliot may better express our consciousness: "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" (The Hollow Men). Of all the evangelists, Luke grapples most with the tradition of the imminent Second...
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Entertaining the Triune Mystery: God, Science, and the Space Between

Jeffrey C. Pugh - 2003 - 212 pages
...itself will collapse into a "white dwarf" and over billions of years become a cold, lifeless lump. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. The future does not seem promising. And yet we are fascinated with the future. We have entire industries...
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War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

Doris L. Bergen - 2003 - 282 pages
...months of Hitler's regime. In his poem "The Wasteland" (1922), TS Eliot wrote the following lines: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." Eliot's description could be applied to the Third Reich, which ended with both an explosion of death...
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How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God

Michael Shermer - 2003 - 372 pages
...on this beach of the tumid river . . . 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. Similar cultural images of God's death bestudded the cultural landscape in this period. Five years...
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Als Ikarus Fiel

Alexander L. Czoppelt - 2003 - 253 pages
...einfach abzuschalten und dir in den Arsch zu treten. Ein Poet des 20. Jahrhunderts wusste es schon: This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper.* Im Glanzgetürm endloser Städte unsere Enkel auf Steigen gereiht wie die Hühner lächelnd doch blicklos...
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Culture: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Volume 3

Chris Jenks - 2003 - 318 pages
...intellectuals to understand. imaginatively or intellectually. is that he was absolutely right. And compare 'this is the way the world ends. not with a bang but a whimper'— incidentally. one of the least likely scientific prophecies ever made— compare that with Rutherford's...
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Culture: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Volume 3

Chris Jenks - 2003 - 318 pages
...intellectuals to understand, imaginatively or intellectually, is that he was absolutely right. And compare ‘this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper'—incidentally, one of the least likely scientific prophecies ever made—compare that with...
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