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>This is the way the world ends
>This is the way the world ends
>Not with a bang but a whimper.

What did he mean by this?

>> No.8599754

He means when I banged your mom last night she let out a whimper.

>> No.8599768

>>8598515
It's one of the most analysed poems in the English language. I think he meant that the world won't end with a sudden apocalypse but with a slow degeneracy away from humanity. Good to look at it in the context of the world wars.

>> No.8600202

>>8598515
Eliot hypothesized that at the lowest point in Western culture, 4chan would appear to complete our ruin.

>> No.8601723 [DELETED] 

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
With black dick in white pussy

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8601729

>>8598515
Turn off the console