Quote#World
The people liked the prospect of the end of the world because it…
Quote byEdward Eggleston · 1837–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The End of the World (1872), Ch. 8.
English (original)
The people liked the prospect of the end of the world because it would be a spectacle, something to relieve the fearful monotony of their lives. Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world, ... unless it had been a first-class circus.
— Edward Eggleston
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