end this conversation
"End This Conversation," March 9, 2022 (#68)
title from The Kingcast Ep. 109, "A Conversation with Stephen King," March 2, 2022
The End by Salvatore Scibona (2008)
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c. 1880-1900 by Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (2000)
End Zone by Don DeLillo (1972)
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (2007)
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen (2018)
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
End This Conversation
The smoke of a barrel of rubbish that the leather-faced madman named
so curious a victim--this unstable equilibrium, which has overbalanced
all possible values of the variables for which the standardized expressions
didn't think we would be forced to wave at them from our lit oil drums
just following one of the bighearted and experience-seeking impulses that
it is perfectly clear to any objective observer that the balance has shifted.
It's just as well that one of us should believe.
Everything had gone to hell. Everything had gone to hell in a flash
to think of it more seriously if we discover it to be profound, persistent,
jumping up and down, doing private and almost theological calisthenics, bringing
this little piece-of-crap chair, just so I can avoid getting shitcanned. That was
an even greater responsibility to the species they’ve threatened with
the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to
hecklers. He was attacking something dead already, and I wondered
where it splintered and spread radially through the procession and the
type to support the neuropathic view. Yet it is very noticeable that
our fundamentally self-centered selves, which are motivated by
a memory from a long way back, from the early years of our
getting harder to complete a pass or turn the corner,
would have provided a standard to judge them by.
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