Showing posts with label the end of civilization as we know it. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the end of civilization as we know it. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2014

56010*

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.

-- T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925

Or, 2014 version:

“It’s, like, scary. It really is. Because if you say one wrong thing your life could be over, basically.” – Brooklyn Reiff, 15, whose tweeted picture of a Target cashier went globally viral. (Whatever any of that means.)

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/a-conversation-with-the-teen-who-took-that-photo-of-101970340239.html

* My present solitaire score. Also Zip Code for Amboy, Minn., 2010 population 534.