“What, will the line stretch out to th’ crack of doom?” (MacBeth, IV.i)

crack of doom, day of judgment, doomsday, Bloomsday

Ragnarök (Old Norse: “final destiny of the gods”)=death of Odin, Thor, Loki, Marvel comics; Ragnarökr or Ragnarökkr (“Twilight of the Gods”), Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, Nietzsche’s Götzen-Dämmerung

impending doom, Ides of March (here we’re back to Shakespeare), portent of evil, Eli’s Coming, Three Dog Night, On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House, Wings of Desire, über Berlin, übermensch (here we’re back to Nietzsche), Rilke, letter to Andreas-Salome “the nameless human doom”

it’s all doom, death, destruction, night, so “once more into the breach, dear friends” (Henry V, V.iii)

This entry was posted on October 1, 2008 and is filed under language, quotations, topics.