The hollow menT. S. Eliot
The hollow men
epitaph for the 20th century
by T. S. Eliot · first published 1964
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…Mistress Going to Bed Philip Larkin: he didn't write much; read the complete poems (if nothing else, look at "Born yesterday") T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Return of the Magi", "Hollow men" Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary George Orwell: Any and…
on “Becoming "well read"” ↗…the fan and prices skyrocket and everyone begins to riot and the SS comes marching down the street to kill everyone. There will be no "happening". It's far more insidious than that. Read the poem "The Hollow Men" by TS ELiot and you'll understand. You'll just notice that every day simple things will become a little more expensive. Everyone's homes and apartments will start to get smaller. your work hours will…
on “Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is” ↗In a similar vein I think these lines from T.S.Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" beautifully expresses one's struggles with the self: Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow Between the conception And the creation Between…
on “Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?” ↗> “There is a moment, just before creation begins, when the work exists in its most perfect form in your imagination.” I think TS Eliot said this exact thing, but more poetically, in “The Hollow Men” (1925): > “Between the conception and the creation, falls the Shadow” Which remains one of my all time fave pieces of writing. So much said in so few words.
on “Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage” ↗…angsty, overly pretentious, seemingly trying too hard for it's own good and for my own pragmatic self to appreciate it. Anyone can fall in love with a few easy-to-digest classics like the ending of 'The Hollow Men' (T.S. 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 a whimper. But nothing beyond those few textbook classics every…
on “A Bird Translates Silence: Wong May updates the Tang Dynasty poets” ↗Brought to mind "the hollow men" by T. S. Eliot: http://mybanyantree.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/ts-eliots-the-h...
on “Ideas are not worthless” ↗…the fan and prices skyrocket and everyone begins to riot and the SS comes marching down the street to kill everyone. There will be no "happening". It's far more insidious than that. Read the poem "The Hollow Men" by TS ELiot and you'll understand. You'll just notice that every day simple things will become a little more expensive. Everyone's homes and apartments will start to get smaller. your work hours will…
on “Live small, be happy? The next new big thing” ↗This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men
on “Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons” ↗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. --- Excerpt from The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot[0]. I'll have to add it to the page, but it was also used as the introduction for The Compound by S.A. Bodeen[1]. It's an interesting young adult novel about a family living underground…
on “Seismologists suspect earthquake on San Andreas Fault is imminent” ↗A quibble with the use of "Not with a bang but a whimper", traced back to T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" poem; VPNArea suddenly disappearing seems to be more of a band than a whimper, where a whimper is a drawn-out death as these men of WWI are experiencing.
on “Popular VPN disappears off the face of the Earth” ↗…(https://buddhasadvice.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/dhammapada-15... and http://www.floweringofgoodness.org/dhammapada-11.php). This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. is from T.S Eliot, The Hollow Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men (https://interestingliterature.com/2021/02/eliot-this-way-wor...). First and second pictures are profile pictures that were generated years ago, before openai…
on “Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak” ↗…Common, they are already grifters! It's a spectrum but the system selects for cheaters and psychopaths. Everything is highly superficial and empty. Reality has become exactly like in T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men."
on “America's Future Leaders Are Learning to Become Grifters” ↗The Hollow Men is from 1925. Try to read it like a beatnik poet, world-weary and confident, with finger snaps and bongo drums or a jazz orchestra in the background. Eliot was a fascinating fellow traveler person. My…
on ““The Hollow Men” at 100” ↗