Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Some Conclusions about Endings


The Guardian discusses how there is something intrinsically problematic with the very idea of finishing stories.

From the piece...

So what, if anything, can I conclude from this briefest of surveys? That open-endedness is preferable? That concord, or its shadow, is necessary too? Perhaps George Eliot sums it up best: "Conclusions are the weak points of most authors," she writes, before adding that "some of the fault lies in the very nature of a conclusion, which is at best a negation".

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