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brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Mon Aug 23, 2021, 09:32 PM Aug 2021

"Not with a bang, but a whimper"

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"Not with a bang, but a whimper" (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2021 OP

We are the hollow men elleng Aug 2021 #1

Presciently written for the occasion Hekate Aug 2021 #2

elleng

(141,926 posts)

1. We are the hollow men

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 09:39 PM

Aug 2021

We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men

The stuffed men.

T.S. Eliot

Hekate

(100,133 posts)

2. Presciently written for the occasion

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 10:09 PM

Aug 2021

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