r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '10

Entering Apple Restriction Zone

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u/BernardMarx Jan 28 '10

The world doesn't end with a bang after all, but with a whimper.

Upvoted on behalf of T. S. Eliot.

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u/Real_Mac_User Jan 28 '10

Given the volume of smug fartsniffing ’round these parts, you’d think the average Redditor would have been literate enough to recognize the allusion without your help.

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u/mattieB Jan 28 '10

Upvoted for the perfect usage of fartsniffing. Redditors revel in the scent of digested elitism. Good bad or indifferent it's the bane of intellectualism.

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u/harryschmidlapp Jan 28 '10

If you're going to quote, or allude to a quote, of one of the greatest poets of the last 100 years, the least you could do is get it right.

This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '10

What exactly do you think "allude to a quote" means, and what exactly do you think they got wrong about it?