[net.comics] Center Cannot Hold

pete@pegasus.UUCP (03/19/84)

,,,

The Source of the line
	Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

If from the W. B. Yeats poem
	"The Second Coming"
				Peter Silverman (at ATT-IS Lincroft)

cmgiuliani@watrose.UUCP (cmgiuliani) (03/20/84)

Well, that poem by Yeats ("The Second Coming") seems to be a popular
source of titles.  Offhand, I can think of two novel with related titles.

       "Things Fall Apart" -- about disintegrating tribal society in Africa,
                              by Chinua Achebe (SP?)

       "Return of the Sphinx" -- about radical Quebec seperatists, by a very
                                 well known Canadian author whose name escapes
                                 me.  This one is a less direct reference to
                                 the line "some rough beast ..".

jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (03/21/84)

>   From: pete@pegasus.UUCP (Pete J. Silverman)

>   The Source of the line
>	Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
>
>   If from the W. B. Yeats poem
>	"The Second Coming"

Here I thought it was the stapling table in the production dept.  :-)

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