For several years running, I’ve begun the end-of-March editions of the Journal with a nod to a writer named Thomas Stearns Eliot. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. I studied his
The Biblical “Doomsday” alludes to the end of the world in general. It isn’t exclusive to Christianity, either; the Mayan calendar, for instance, predicted that the world would end on 21 December 2012.