This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Excerpt from The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot[0].
I'll have to add it to the page, but it was also used as the introduction for The Compound by S.A. Bodeen[1]. It's an interesting young adult novel about a family living underground in a state of the art bomb shelter after a nuclear attack occurs.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men
[1] https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-compound-s-a-bodeen/1554853...