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kennyc · 04-08-2012, 01:03 PM

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The book also takes its name from the T. S. Eliot poem The Hollow Men, which includes the line "Gathered on this beach of the tumid river." Some editions of the novel, including the 1990 publication by Mandarin Paperbacks, include extracts from the poem, such as its concluding lines:

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

04-08-2012, 01:03 PM	#114
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,918 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...281959_film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_%28novel%29 The book also takes its name from the T. S. Eliot poem The Hollow Men, which includes the line "Gathered on this beach of the tumid river." Some editions of the novel, including the 1990 publication by Mandarin Paperbacks, include extracts from the poem, such as its concluding lines: This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. Last edited by kennyc; 04-08-2012 at 01:07 PM.