"Things fall apart. The center does not hold." [A] man named Yeats said that. I didn't understand that poem in college, Len. But I… must be getting smarter in my old age, because I understand it now. And one other line from that poem: "What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" I think that beast might be on its way, Len.
[Later, with all Army operations and the United States overall falling apart, Major Carsleigh hears a gunshot while working outside Starkey's office. The General has shot himself, pinning a paper to his uniform that says "GUILTY".]
You were right, Billy... the center didn't hold. It didn't...
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