![]() Jean-Luc Picard quotes the poem in Brinkmanship, the last book of Star Trek: Typhon Pact, as a possible explanation why war with the Tzenkethi and the rest of the Typhon Pact now seems inevitable.The miniseries Star Trek: Mere Anarchy is named for the poem, as are its six parts: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold, Shadows of the Indignant, The Darkness Drops Again, The Blood-Dimmed Tide and Its Hour Come Round.In The Star of the Guardians, "The center cannot hold" is the activation code for a doomsday device called a "space-rotation bomb," which is appropriate for something that creates a Negative Space Wedgie.The job is to hold as much as we can for as long as we can." It's on its way, and it's a good deal rougher than that fellow Yeets ever could have imagined. Stephen King's The Stand: Quoted by Starkey, a US Army general who oversaw a project to engineer a super-virus, which has now escaped and will certainly destroy civilization.Joan Didion titled one of her books Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In The Science of Discworld, a wizard trying to figure out real-world physics deduces that "Things fall apart, but centres hold.".Woody Allen titled one of his books Mere Anarchy.The second novel in Rennie Airth's John Madden mystery series is entitled The Blood-Dimmed Tide.Recited by the poet Martin Silenus in Hyperion.The last line of Good Omens describes the Anti Anti Christ as "slouching hopefully towards Tadfield". ![]()
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