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I don't think so. While David Foster Wallace discussed loneliness and authenticity in several of the essays found in Consider the Lobster , the most significant was his discussion of John McCain in "Up, Simba: Seven Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate. This craving for authenticity extends beyond politics. Who we are, what we care about, what makes us happy all plays into the giant commercial of modern living.
As writers, it can sometimes feel there's no escape. Even work like Fight Club becomes its own product as it lashes out against consumerism. Really, I want you to trust my authenticity in this article, and I hope we can both appreciate the irony as I provide a sales link to each of the main works I've discussed. Is there a way around it? I don't know, but it's where we're at: Stories meant for escapism tend to stick to a "good guy wins" outcome; this sort of pop fiction is meant for those who want to evade the emptiness.
But the unhappy ending is trying to fill rather than avoid that emptiness. This task requires looking straight into the void. The unhappy ending also provides a sense of honesty and connection with readers. To acknowledge the unspoken pain of the reader and bear witness to the shallow isolation of mainstream life lets readers know they are not alone.
So why give readers another happy ending to write off as a sales pitch? This is the 21st century: We may be hungry for joy, but we are starving for that morsel of authentic human connection. Robbie Blair is a world-wandering author and poet who blogs about his adventures, the writing craft, and more. He was doomed to write when, at just three years old, his English-professor father taught him the "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
To leave a comment Login with Facebook or create a free account. I'm not one to write happy endings myself although I do like to think I write satisfying endings. I'm not sure I completely agree with Rob's thesis, at least for the reading population as a whole. Sure, there are among us the Literati, who appreciate an unhappy ending. However, the mass market of happy endings out there, and the attendant sales of the books that contain them, I think, speaks to number of readers who want happy endings.
For my part, I'm pleased when an author, if necessary, can bring him or herself to kill off an important or beloved character J. Rowling, I'm looking at you here. But, even Rowling couldn't stave off the happy ending. Maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges here. I would guess that the number of readers who "want" a happy ending is not representative of the number of readers who will accept an unhappy ending if it is satisfying.
I say this because the unhappy or mixed ending is accepted in mainstream fiction and completely rejected in mainstream film. Even Dodgeball was supposed to have an unhappy ending, but when it tested poorly with audiences, they went over the top and gave it the most ridiculously happy ending ever. They lose, BUT they get a ton of money! Vince Vaughn gets the girl AND her girlfriend!
The villain is ruined!
So, happy endings are fantasy, and a more realistic ending is acceptable because it doesnt seem like a sales pitch. What if it were the other way around though? What if now we're so conditioned to suspect our own feelings of happiness that we cheat ourselves of what could be a real-life happy ending?
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Answered May 7, Would space ever end? It would look like this: CODEX is the officially licensed exchange that you can trust to.
Our highest priority is the security of our users' funds and personal data with the lowest fees 0. Sign Up at codex. Is there any end of space? The answer to this question is simple. As human beings evolved as thinking animal, we started measuring things.
The quantitative assessment is the unique quality of being human. We even came up with unit system where we can label the measurements. Even what we describe as qualitative assessment by writing few words about something is actually technically quantitative. Let me explain how. We came up with language where we labeled particular sounds coming through our soundbox as alphabets, fixed its pronunciation and formed a symbol as a mathematical representation of the compressions and rarefactions produced by sound waves produced due to how we expire our air out of our larynx.
So, when we are qualitatively describing something,we are actually using these same set symbols to put it in words. Basically through our consciousness we symbolised and tried to measure everything to understand it. Otherwise what we speak is just random vibrations in the air. They make sense because we have labeled it. So my point being when we look at something which is unapprehensible, unknown, unmeasurably vast, that creates a gap in our understanding. Now how you fill this gap is like a multivariable calculus.
It has n no. Of solutions depending on how one has gone through his or her life. Some people fill those gap with things like god, ghosts etc.
Others try to find their own answers. But everyone strives for the answer because it is the tendency of human mind to find pattern in randomness or to measure the vastness.
Now coming to the question, every now and then, humans fail to find the perfect answer to fill the gap like measuring space, getting at the end of number line or getting at the smallest particle of matter because all the three processes doesn't sewm to end at any point. They can just be continued on and on. Hence comes the concept of infinity.
We just say that space in infinite or at the end of number line there is infinity or smallest state of matter we are trying to get there or those are the particles bound with infinite energy going by the law that as you go deeper in the core of atom, you require more and more energy to disintegrate it. So infinity is defined by limitations of human consciousness. Hence vague in its nature. So the best answer to this question would be i am trying to fill that gap.
Is there an end to space? Is there an end for space? The short answer is no. The better answer is no, and here are the reasons. So here are two reasons. Philosophically and logically, space cannot have an end, which implies an edge or border, because we would then be confronted with the seeming impossibility of something or some kind of nothing outside of space.
Science has a pretty fair argument that space can be defined by the operation of known forces and assumes a non-Euclidean geometric. That is, there are no straight lines in space, so any travel through space would and could not lead to an edge, but would either circle back or diverge from a straight path — a closed or open geometry, but not a geometry with a boundary.
Answered Mar 23, No, this shd be answered using the holographic theories. The theory states that our universe is not only the universe which is present in the multiverse the word multiverse is not the exact word, I just used this word for u to get the exact picture. Moreover in the concept of holographic theory there is no work of multiverse concept. Then for the 4th universe we will be like strings and since the concentric spheres are endless what will we be for the fifth universe and other superuniverses? This can't be answered if strings are considered to be energy strands and hence the theory states that there are possibilities for stings to be particles instead of energy strands.
The second one is the theory also says that there are possibilities for aliens to exist in the universes which are surrounding us and the most important thing is since our universe is not even a single part of their universe, hence those aliens wd be very intelligent than us.
And for more information check YouTube video on holographic theory. Answered Jan 20, Because of the following points: Does outer space ever stop? There is something known as the visible universe. This consists of all entities in space which can be sensed from earth by measuring light or other electromagnetic radiation which originated from those entities.
This is the farthest that we can see, as nothing can travel faster than light.
So, the observable universe can be thought as a boundary to space that we can sense. The radius of the visible universe, is about We don't know for sure if there is an end to the universe, though one can argue that anything that is beyond the observable universe is also part of the universe by definition. If we define the end of space as the end where we can observe, then yes. Answered Jul 19, Definitely NO As far as we know we can be sure that outer space is expanding. Answered Jul 28, We can only observe a finite slice of the universe using our observational telescopes. It is called the Observable universe.
We have no way to know for certain what lies beyond the observable universe. Your guess is as good as mine. However, the observable universe itself is really, really, really big! Space is a functional entity, presupposed by rational beings, whenever they think of real entities. It is an imaginary container without form or structure. Space has either objective reality nor positive existence.
As it is a functional entity it fulfils all functions assigned to it by rational beings. Space extents to infinity means, you can find 3D matter-bodies however far you and beyond. It is up to rational beings to determine extent, properties and other parameters of space, in their own minds.
Found 79 words that end in ever. Browse our Scrabble Word Finder, Words With Friends cheat dictionary, and WordHub word solver to find words that end with. A happy ending is an ending of the plot of a work of fiction in which almost everything turns out A happy ending is epitomized in the standard fairy tale ending phrase, "happily ever after" or "and they lived happily ever after". (One Thousand.
Updated Apr 17, Answered Apr 19, No there is no end to the space. According to scientists , after the big bang theory the space kept expanding and is still expanding. Answered Feb 13, Related Questions Has an animal ever been in outer space? Will we ever voyage in deep space? Will we ever industrialise Space? Will our questions ever end? Can space ever disappear?
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