LSW 200 TEXTS

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near.

- John, Book of Revelation 1:3

Our experts are already debating about these dates, but the consensus is that on August 13, 2000 the world will end as we know it. But it will continue in some other form.

The Sun (Sept 24, 1996, p. 20)

Philip Roth: Do you think the destruction of the world is coming soon?
Milan Kundera: That depends on what you mean by the word "soon".
Roth: Tomorrow or the day after.
Kundera: The feeling that the world is rushing to ruin is an ancient one.
Roth: So then we have nothing to worry about.
Kundera: On the contrary. If a fear has been present in the human mind for ages there must be something to it.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter & Forgetting.

R.E.M. sings It's the end of the World as We Know It ...and they feel fine!

Joni Mitchell sings Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a reworking of the poem The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats

LSW 200
Fall '97

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