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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike M2 who wrote (42039)	1/4/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Mike-and-Will, I wanted to quote the end of T.S. Eliot's "Hollow Men," about the world ending not with a bang, but a whimper, but the best excerpt I found on the net was too nice to truncate, so you have to suffer through the yucky stuff to get to the end: Excerpts from: "Of Hollow Men" T.S. Eliot(1888-1965) Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss From prayers to broken stone. Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow 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. Don't some booms end with whimpers, not bangs?<g>