Monday, January 23, 2012

The End?

... One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and secrets all heaped together so that the whole story, from beginning to end, depends on how you look at it.  We might even say that the world is always in medias res - a Latin phrase which means "in the midst of things" or "in the middle of a narrative" - and that it is impossible to solve any mystery, or find the root of any trouble, and so The End is really the middle of the story, as many people in this history will live long past the close of Chapter Thirteen...


A Series of Unfortunate Events Book the Thirteenth 
by Lemony Snicket titled The End
*Pages 288-289 *


The end? 
Or the beginning? 
It depends on how you look at it.

1 comment:

CarolJo said...

The end or the beginning....I've had those thoughts run through my head at night just before falling asleep...