Notes From A Discussion on Endings

I.
The ending as INVITATION. (To the reader.)

II.
The ending as BOMB. (For exploding the work, for exploding the reader's reading.)

III.
The ending as LOGICAL EXHAUSTION. (Of the work's shape, of the work's momentum.

IV.
The ending as BELIEF. (In its surprising structural inevitability, in its surprising contextual inevitability. In the world it has just finished helping to create.)