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Originally Posted by kennyc

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.

A better quote might be from the Black Sabbath song "Electric Funeral." IMO the only thing Eliot did that was notable or quotable was The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Everything else is Modernist tripe whose primary use is discouraging people from learning to enjoy reading.