endings – Mark Larson

2011-05-19 ~ Mark

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles, in his screenplay for The Big Brass Ring, written in the early 1980s as his last attempt at a commercial Hollywood film (via austinkleon). And thus was born my new endings tag. See also William Gibson and Nietzsche.

2010-09-06 ~ Mark

Happy endings in life, and in fiction too perhaps, are really about where you decide to roll the credits.

William Gibson – Viceland Today

2010-01-28 ~ Mark

Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable.

Nietzsche. Yeah, I kind of hate to be that Nietzsche-quoting guy, but I read it in Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project this morning and it stuck with me.