Wake Up, Leviathan
β 6 Β· 2015 Β· 20m Β· Science Fiction Β· Documentary
T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then adding: "Not with a bang but a whimper."
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