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Drinking Through Election Night, As Told By T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"

"This is the way the world ends."

by
Laura Silver
by Laura Silver

BuzzFeed News Reporter, UK

,
Hannah Jewell
by Hannah Jewell

BuzzFeed Staff

Between the desire

And the spasm

Between the potency

And the existence

Between the essence

And the descent

Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is

Life is

For Thine is the

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".