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Originally Posted by joe bloe
No. Did he get the title form Yeat's poem? Robert Bork got the title of his book, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" from the same poem. "The Second Coming" seems to capture the spirit of the times. I think we're entering a dark age.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Yes. It is a great book, and should not be thought of as 'African' literature (which IMHO demeans a work - I hate the whole concept of ethnic or 'black' literature or whatever).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart