The bit of poetry someone put on the list is from T.S. Elliot's "The Hollow
Men". The poem begins with:
"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"And ends with: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.I wonder, is he talking about us?Ed
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>I seem to recall T.S. Elliot, though it's a rather ancient memmory and I'm
> not sure of why. The last line should be "Not with a bang but a whimper", I
> think.
>
> Ed
>
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>>
>> 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 with an "upgrade".
>>
>> Pete Vincent from the FW list
>>
>>
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>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pete
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:17 PM
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>>
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Michael Gurstein wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Special Notice (SN) DARPA-SN-11-44
>>> SUBJECT: Living Foundries Industry Day
>>> DATE: June 28, 2011
>>>
>>>(...)
>>>
>>> The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) of the Defense Advanced Research
>>> Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring an Industry Day for "Living
>>> Foundries," a new DARPA program. The goal of the Living Foundries program
>> is
>>> to apply an engineering framework to biology to harness its use as a
>>> technology and drive its advance as a manufacturing platform.
>>
>> This spring, listening to the endless stream of weather emergency
>> reports from across the world, while grinding through the ninth month
>> of unbroken overcast, with drizzle interrupted by downpours, I
>> thought about amending Eliot:
>>
>> 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 with a gurgle
>>
>> However, in light of this article, I might propose a new last line
>>
>> Not with a bang but with an "Ooops, who opened that?"
>>
>> -Pete
>>
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