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kellyrfineman

Quoteskimming through a conversation

Jan 11, 2009 13:03

Today's icon contains a quote from Alice in Wonderland, in case you were wondering.

Earlier this week, I posted a conversation with some other writers about book endings. It was fun for me to participate in a conversation with Tessa Garton (everflame), Carrie Jones (carriejones), Jill Myles (irysangel) and Maggie Stiefvater (m_stiefvater), as well as with folks who posted in the comments ( Read more... )

quotes, endings, myles, garton, stiefvater, jones

Comments 5

seaheidi January 12 2009, 00:06:34 UTC

I missed this post, but will comment now. I like Maggie's take--the bittersweet.

You know what I hate though?? Movies where one of the lead characters DIE FOR NO REASON

Like this crappola movie I just saw on the plane, which I will not spoil for you in which the main love interest dies FOR NO REASON.

Okay, now you know I will never kill a main character for no reason at the end of my books. And if I do, show me this comment and pelt me with stale Fritos.

kellyrfineman January 12 2009, 00:24:03 UTC

In the full conversation, that exact point is made, when someone (Jill, maybe?) drags in CITY OF ANGELS, which involved an unexpected death near the end of the movie that really annoyed pretty much everyone involved.

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kellyrfineman January 12 2009, 00:34:27 UTC

I figured it was worth taking a second look at it - there was some good stuff in there!

christy_lenzi January 15 2009, 18:46:46 UTC

When I was reading Robert Irwin's THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, A COMPANION, I came across this quote from Jacques Monod's "Chance and Necessity":

"What is very plain, however, is that the ideas having the highest invading potential are those that explain man by assigning him his place in an immanent destiny, a safe harbor where his anxiety dissolves.' As with ideas, so, surely, with stories. A story which has begun by conjuring up a problem (or an anomoly, or a violation), and which has ended by conjuring the problem away, will have commended itself to those in its audience who are worried about their own destiny and place in the universe. Fiction here has some of the same soothing powers as religion."

kellyrfineman January 15 2009, 19:44:39 UTC

Wow - that was deep. It made my brain hurt to sort it out today, because I'm a wee bit tired. But I really liked that point once I worked it out!