A happy ending depends on where you stop telling the story.
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Sometimes I think that fiction is soothing because it posits there are solutions in this world, rather than just practices. You can do a thing and get to the end of it and have it be finished for good. And in the real world there is so very rarely any such thing as closure, as things that end rather than transforming, changing, coming back in a different guise. The murder isn’t solved when the murderer is unmasked: there’s manhunts and arrests and trials and reasonable doubt and police corruption and appeals to get through. In Agatha Christie the murderer is just as likely to nip off and die by suicide as they ever are to come to trial, because it provides
A happy ending depends on where you stop telling the story.
A happy ending depends on where you stop…
A happy ending depends on where you stop telling the story.
Sometimes I think that fiction is soothing because it posits there are solutions in this world, rather than just practices. You can do a thing and get to the end of it and have it be finished for good. And in the real world there is so very rarely any such thing as closure, as things that end rather than transforming, changing, coming back in a different guise. The murder isn’t solved when the murderer is unmasked: there’s manhunts and arrests and trials and reasonable doubt and police corruption and appeals to get through. In Agatha Christie the murderer is just as likely to nip off and die by suicide as they ever are to come to trial, because it provides