On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:41:46 -0500, Sean O'Hara <seanohara@gmail.com>
wrote:
> In the Year of the Golden Pig, the Great and Powerful thinbluemime
> declared:
>> Locke is a metaphor for the island....he has a hole on both ends and
>> is hollow inside...LOL
>>
>
> Well, Sawyer did describe him as Colonel Kurtz, and Eliot's "The Hollow
> Man" begins with a quote from Conrad -- "Mistah Kurtz - he dead."
>
Interesting! Thanks for a connection I would never seen by myself!!
T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men" wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men_(poetry)
The final stanza may be the most quoted of all of Eliot's poetry;
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.
Stephen King and Alan Moore and many others have used this poem's
inspiration in some of their works.
Tony Carey's "Go Out Dancing (G.O.D.) references the poem also in the line
"The last days of the world, Came with a whimper not a bang." I am posting
the complete lyrics here
Tony Carey / Planet P Project - Lyrics
"Go Out Dancing"
Go out dancing
Go out dancing at the end of the world
The last days of the world
Came with a whimper not a bang
No white knight got the girl
And no fat lady sang
And someone in a back room somewhere
Made one small mistake
Was it Ebola or cholera?
What difference does it make
We'll go out dancing at the end of the world
We'll go out dancing at the end of the world
He could have been a hero
Could have worn a hero's hat
But he left a small valve open
And went on home to feed his cat
Now there’s no more eastside no more Westside
No more miss O'rourke
No one trips the light fantastic
On the side walks of New York
We'll go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
And it could have been deniable
It didn't have to be
Just this one time mister reliable
Was not where he was supposed to be
And one small footnote
Adding insult to the pain
He was looking for a lifeboat
Got run over by a train
We'll go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
Go out dancing at the end of the world
http://www.lostdude.com
David
The Translucen…
