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"Oh noes your BULLET SPAMMING me with your assault rifle"

---High Commander Frogger
---Captain of the Elites

this is a quote from the cortana letters OMG OMG OMG this is awsome

thisa is going to be awsome

  • 05.09.2006 1:37 PM PDT
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Yeah, already sigged.

  • 05.09.2006 1:37 PM PDT
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another puzzle from bungie for us fanboys to drool over night and day until halo 3 is released.

  • 05.09.2006 1:38 PM PDT
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Its a poem from T.S. Eliot. It has the same line.. I think its from Eliot.. not sure, you guys have Google for that :D

  • 05.09.2006 1:39 PM PDT
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I'm guessing thats the Arc and their activating the halos. Bugger me they've done an amazing job on that trailer, i'm hyped up like a good'n. Once again they've out done themselves making it feel beyond epic.

  • 05.09.2006 1:52 PM PDT
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i think this is a vision or dream MC gets and then halo 3 is played out you trying to stop that from happening

  • 05.12.2006 4:10 PM PDT
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The poem is "the hollow men" by T.S. Elliot

  • 05.12.2006 4:13 PM PDT
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yeah.

  • 05.12.2006 4:13 PM PDT
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The Hollow Men
by T. S. Elliot


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 4:15 PM PDT

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -Aristotle

I'm guessing that what was shown during the trailer is what will happen if Master Chief fails, Cortana says she knows his future and that "This is how the world ends." which could be that this is how the world will end if the Master Chief fails.

The Third letter from Cortana alludes to the sanctuary (i.e. the ark) and refers to it as an unbroken circle, now we could take this in a literal sense as the fact that if the structure on the trailer is indeed the ark, it is indeed circular. However I believe it refers to the fact that this sequence of events has happened before, and will happen again. Refering to these sequence of events as the unbroken circle implies that it can be broken and that perhaps the galaxy may be saved.

So really when Cortana says this is how the world ends it's because this is how the world will end if the circle is left unbroken, Master Chief, or someone else, must break this sequence of events that leads to the end of the world.

[Edited on 5/12/2006]

  • 05.12.2006 4:16 PM PDT
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There has got to be something referenced in "The Hollow Men"

I can't do this alone.

Help me speculators, you're my only hope.

  • 05.12.2006 4:45 PM PDT