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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Or maybe just killed the son off and ended with the father, the last man, raging at Jehova in some fashion.
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yes pounding his fists in the ashes.
or how about being roasted alive on a spit.
blah, blah, blah.
What if this, what if that.
Are we going to rewrite Frost's poetry next?
I don't know if I've ever read a book, that was so technically adept and also so free of artifice.
If you want to make the argument that the ending was artifice, that they were false steps, then make that argument. But I feel pretty safe saying that the argument will not hold. The work speaks for itself.