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That may be true in mystery stories, but not so often in real life. I think the best answer is the last page got lost, the scribe who was recording the Codex Sinaiticus left a space for inserting the last page when it was found, and it was never found or the scribe never got back to finishing...

There is a good overview of the evidence for and against the missing ending of Mark in Wikipedia: Mark 16 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Modern Bibles nearly always place Mark 16:9-20 in a footnote or indicate that most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have...

I am no expert when it comes to comparing authors, but I find both O'Connor and Boyle have a sense of the absurd, with quirky characters and endings that keep you off balance. Jim Shepherd, in his New York Times review of T.C. Boyle Stories said this...

That has been my experience, too. I think I should like her better than I do. I prefer something by T. C. Boyle, instead.

If the alternative story were true, why would Konrad have shown the book about the tropics to Krisztina beforehand? It was apparently something more than just an idle read, and suggests he was already thinking about heading there. The thought had crossed my mind that Konrad was...

Well done! And Konrad ...?

Funny you should think that, when Flannery O'Connor is one of the greatest Christian writers of the twentieth century. Maybe there is more to Christian folks than you think. flannery o'connor christian - Google Search

After they have stood before the embers of the dying fire: The fire is just dying embers, the candles have burned to the stump, but in their last words with each other they both agree that "what gives our lives their meaning is the passion that ... burns in us forever".

It's interesting that, as best I recall, Konrad never denies any of the General's allegations. Nor does he show remorse or ask forgiveness. If the General was not seeing reality correctly, you would think Konrad would make some comment in his own defence. Krisztina may have felt these...

Early on, I thought the point of the book was to consider friendship between men. But the nature of the general's friendship toward Konrad bothered me a lot. The General's approach to Konrad reminded me of the way some people approach God. Growing up in a Scandinavian Lutheran tradition...

That is the delight of the book. One can go back and read parts of the story and come away with all sorts of ideas and understandings one missed on first or even second reading. Someone else willl come away with different insights. Earlier I likened the book to a small garden. Everywhere...

I'm sure the title of the book comes from Chapter 19. As Konrad gets ready to leave the castle: "Both men get to their feet and move spontaneously toward the fireplace to warm their thin hands at the embers of the dying fire." I'm not sure whether the dying fire represents the waning of...

Try the Gospel of Matthew. It has some good advice on right living - and the ending is great!

It's as though, once the General had broken the silence, he was free to love again. It was okay to return the portrait of Krisztina, and give the goood night kiss to Nini.

I think the General's calmness, acceptance, rationality, and emotional distance has caused us to miss something about his personality that was evident from his childhood. In Chapter 4, when he was ill in Paris as a boy, it was said that "nobody uttered a word about the cause of the child's...

My guess would be she sought forgiveness from one who was able to give it. The General had provided for her, even though personally estranged from her. Konrad had left them both with nothing.

Its about more than just the Empire collapsing. Its about the collapse of a way of life, a code of honor, a friendship, a marriage - all the things the General held dear. All he has left is a few rooms in his castle, and Nini.

I thought the point of the book may have been to consider the nature of friendship between men in general - not just these two men. The General held to an old-fashioned code of honor between men, even though the old society and much of the reason for the code had collapsed around him. In our...

Already in Chapter 1 we see how confined the General's life has become. "He lived here as an invalid lives within the space he has learned to inhabit. As if the room had been tailored to his body. Years passed without him setting foot in the other wing of the castle, ...." For 32 years, he...

I found Embers to be like a small garden - quiet, peaceful, confined, and full of small surprises. After the wasteland of A Farewell to Arms, it was refreshing to take time to stop and enjoy the flowers - what saliotthomas describes as the beauty of some of the allegories. A confined...