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Those without swords can still die upon them.

OK so we know that's a quote from T.S. Eliot, but wasn't that also used back in the Cortana letters waaay back when? I for one am most definitely going to go back and re-read those to see what else I can find.

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html

  • 05.09.2006 1:09 PM PDT
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It is all building to something,
Something... forerunner.

  • 05.09.2006 1:11 PM PDT
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The cortana letters never coincided with the Bungie approved Halo plot f.y.i.

It was just a hoax.

  • 05.09.2006 1:13 PM PDT
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Yea stryker your right, andthanks for the link btw, was looking for that, also the letters had something about "ive seen your future" which cortana says in the trailer, geez this is a halo nerds heaven .

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  • 05.09.2006 1:17 PM PDT

Those without swords can still die upon them.

Anyone come up with another quote or is that it

  • 05.09.2006 1:28 PM PDT
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ppl, think more! this is probably the end of halo 3, or at leats part of it. think about it. cortana sdays "This is the way the world ends", that that blue beam is like the beam thats fired from the halos. pout the 2 together, the world is about to end, and were seeing a small part of the end of the game! enought to get us going OMFG ITS HALO 3!, but not enought to ruin the ending

  • 05.12.2006 5:38 AM PDT
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All that work and the humans loose? DARN THIS IT CAN'T BE THE ENDING AFTER ALL THE KILLING WE DID!!!! AFTER ALL MC'S EFFORT IT CAN'T BE!!!!

  • 05.12.2006 6:45 AM PDT
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Irony: (a) The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
(b) An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
(c) A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.

Its not from the end, bungie in the FAQ have already said "its from about 3/4 of the way through", read all the information before you start going "oh my god its the end of the game scene"

also the world may end but does that mean the MC loses? that humans all die? i doubt it, a tragic sacrifice, to end the world but to stop the flood.

  • 05.12.2006 6:55 AM PDT
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THe world aint gunna end in this game. that would be retarted

  • 05.12.2006 7:03 AM PDT
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here is the poem by t.s eliot

The Hollow Men

T. S. Eliot (1925)
I


We are the hollow men
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.


II


Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.


Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --


Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom


III


This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.


Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.


IV


The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms


In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river


Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.


V


Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.


Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow


For Thine is the Kingdom


Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow


Life is very long


Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom


For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the


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

  • 05.12.2006 7:08 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

I thought the trailer was from 1/3 through?

  • 05.12.2006 7:25 AM PDT
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I think I got some proof to the theory that Gravemind and/or Cortana is showing Master Chief a vision of things to come.. I found it in a cutscene at the beginning of "Gravemind" map.

"Inside Job"


Gravemind: "...This one's contaiment and this one's Great Journey are the same.
Your prophets have promised you freedom from you doomed exsistance, but you will find no salvation on this ring .Those who build this knew what the wrought. Do not mistake their intend or all will perish..as they did before"
Master Chief: "This thing is right, Halo is a weapon, your prophets are making a big mistake"
The Arbiter: "Your ignorance already destroyed one of the sacred rings, demon. It shall not harm another"
Gravemind: "If you will not hear the truth, then I will SHOW IT TO YOU"

That last sentence. Could it be referring to the thing that happens in the trailer?

  • 05.12.2006 7:29 AM PDT