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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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Then I decided that that would bring about the apocalypse.†
p. 75.3

apocalypse = an event involving terrible destruction
Apocalypse Later (dir.†
p. 127.8
Once we found out what the apocalypse was, we thought that it was ridiculous that Apocalypse Now was not, in fact, about the End of the World.†
p. 127.8
Once we found out what the apocalypse was, we thought that it was ridiculous that Apocalypse Now was not, in fact, about the End of the World.†
p. 127.9
This movie can best be summed up like this: Earl, wearing a bandanna and holding a Super Soaker, demands to know when the apocalypse is happening.†
p. 127.9
Offscreen, I tell Earl that the apocalypse is not for a while.†
p. 128.1
I decided pretty quickly, however, that that was not going to work, and might also bring about the apocalypse.†
p. 249.1 *

Definitions:

(1) (apocalypse)
an event involving terrible destruction that ends the world as we know it; or (especially when capitalized) the end of the world as prophesized in the Christian book of Revelation
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
At one time "apocalypse" referred to the unveiling of new ideas -- especially in early Jewish and Christian literature.