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✦Literature

T.S. Eliot - The Hollow Men

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The line 'not with a bang but a whimper' is the famous closing line of T.S. Eliot's 1925 poem 'The Hollow Men.' Honey misattributes it as being about 'the world' rather than the poem's actual subject.

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Mentioned once in You Scratch My Book....

You Scratch My Book...

Season 2 · Episode 15 · S02E15

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“You know a poet once said something about the world that I think applies to our relationship: 'It ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.'”
— Honey

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