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‘This is the way the world ends’: Nevil Shute warned us of nuclear annihilation. It’s still a hot-button issue
July 22, 2023July 22, 2023by In Shopping

‘This is the way the world ends’: Nevil Shute warned us of nuclear annihilation. It’s still a hot-button issue

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot‘s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes: This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. In 1958, on his 70th birthday, Eliot was asked whether he would consider writing these lines, probably his most quoted, again. His answer was both noteworthy and categorical....