The last pages of a book
Posted Monday, April 07, 2003 @ 08:39 PM
I can think of little that is more satisfying than to finish a book, read its last sentence (however insignificant), and find blank pages to follow that perhaps aren't meant to be there at all. Somehow they signify the story that takes place long after the book ends; even fictional lives weave on long after a story is told. It's as if the writer has taken the reader as far as possible, and the book has reached its highest documentable climax. And for those few moments on the last page you can understand anything--anything abstract or foreign, unexpected or absurd, and then it's as if the story dies, when really it stretches on for lifetimes, on a new page somewhere that no one can read.
After those few moments of indentification and complete, immeasurable understanding, everyone gets lost, and while the writer could continue for centruries, digging in untold buckets or imagining some stark comparison, there reaches a point in time when the reader can no longer understand the writer's obsession, or perhaps the way sentences are crafted, scenes portrayed.
Eventually, every mini-series exhausts its characters, its plotlines, and when things start to get written twice, the reader is only in it to complete the collection.
And the writer is in it because the readers buy every word of it, and the writer figures maybe there is little else that can help her make cents.
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life would be void without literature.
I love you, dear!
07 Apr 2003, 8:44 PM.
yeah, it's miraculous when a writer can create, unfold this world for you and you immerse yourself so completely into the words and descriptions, that you begin to believe this is all happening because you visualize the story so completely. the story becomes a part of you. and at the end, it's like saying goodbye to a close friend.
12 Apr 2003, 9:27 PM.
i heart you and miss you!
14 Apr 2003, 3:11 AM.
Writting shouldn't need to make cents.
Go out on the town for a while.
14 Apr 2003, 8:45 AM.
Come see me sooooon. I got you a present.....
17 Apr 2003, 11:30 AM.
hey, stranger. come out, come out, wherever you are.
26 Apr 2003, 9:39 PM.
i read two books this weekend. Hard Love, and A Girls' Guide (by the way, it was just as good as you said). And I must admit, I don't read books often enough. But when I do, I remember why reading is so great: It's everything you wish your life could be. And what that is could be anything, from more interesting, to containing better relationships, and most of all, having a happy ending. And I think books are better than movies or plays, because with a book, that character you love so much really could be you. What I'm basically saying is, god bless literature, and god bless you, glynnis, for how much of it you've introduced me to.
- matthew -
27 Apr 2003, 10:31 PM.
i can think of little that is more satisfying than an update. so, chop chop! get to it!
30 Apr 2003, 7:56 PM.
ok glynnis. it's now officially been a month since your last update. you must be a busy [lazy] little beaver...
07 May 2003, 9:05 PM.