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"Not with a bang, but with a whimnper."

Our poet "Eliot" had it all wrong, eh? So the world ends with a bang?

  • 07.02.2006 12:41 PM PDT
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wat?

  • 07.02.2006 12:41 PM PDT

Quae caret ora cruore nostro?
P.S. I love you.

?

  • 07.02.2006 12:42 PM PDT
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I Know exactly what your talking about!

  • 07.02.2006 12:42 PM PDT

Quae caret ora cruore nostro?
P.S. I love you.

Posted by: X13Classified31X
I Know exactly what your talking about!

Would you mind telling us?

  • 07.02.2006 12:44 PM PDT
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Hmm.... Interesting. But she doesn't say that line in the trailer, only in the letters, so I guess it doesn't count.

  • 07.02.2006 12:45 PM PDT
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what the hell are you talking about?

  • 07.02.2006 12:49 PM PDT
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????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????what????????? ??????????????????????????????

iam scared and confused

  • 07.02.2006 12:51 PM PDT
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were all scared and confused

  • 07.02.2006 12:52 PM PDT
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????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????what????????? ??????????????????????????????

iam scared and confused


<=========== I'm with stupid.

  • 07.02.2006 12:52 PM PDT
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Think of the world going out in a whimper.

A noisy and chaotic death to the world is out of the question, so the flood won't devour us all.

I'm guessing a successful activation of Halo.

  • 07.02.2006 12:55 PM PDT
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Let's not be stupid now. The end of Halo 3 will not bring about the end of the world.

  • 07.02.2006 12:57 PM PDT
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coke and pepsie are the same thing and iam still scared and confused

  • 07.02.2006 12:59 PM PDT
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In the Cortana Letters, there is a reference to the poet "Eliot." The poet in my is T.S Eliot. He wrote a brilliant poem called "The Hollow Men." The last four lines of it are:

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.

But Eliot had it "wrong." So the world must end with a bang. I surmise that Cortana is going to destroy everything. She is going to put an end to all the suffering - also referenced in Eliot's poem.

There may be a twist however. The twist involves the Marathon references in Halo. Perhaps a competing AI will destroy the world.

Regardless, i predect an "end to all suffering," or something to that effect.

  • 07.02.2006 1:10 PM PDT
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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.

  • 07.02.2006 1:18 PM PDT
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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.

  • 07.02.2006 1:19 PM PDT
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Perhaps the "broken column" is in reference to the "seventh column." Much to speculate about.

This line sticks out to me:

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.

I think of the H3 trailer when i think of this line...

  • 07.02.2006 1:20 PM PDT
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Is this post too long for the ADHD kids here? ;)

  • 07.02.2006 3:16 PM PDT
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yes

  • 07.02.2006 3:40 PM PDT