This page is dedicated to the last paragraphs of texts. My hopes being that people won't have to type 100 different things into a search engine to find what they are looking for. If you have a last paragraph you'd like to be available to the community, please contact me at fairest @ gmail . com
11/8/15
The Last Paragraph of Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
The Last Paragraph of Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
She would hang a sign in the restaurant window---Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either.
The Last Line of Dodie Bellamy's Pink Steam
The Last Line of Dodie Bellamy's Pink Steam
Boy was I in for a big surprise....
The Last Lines of Janet Flanner's The Cubical City
The Last Lines of Janet Flanner's The Cubical City
Slowly Delia closed her eyes, her head sightless, erect, and yellow, holding its distance from the shadows that spread around her in her chair.
The Last Paragraph of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head
The Last Paragraph of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head
I gave her back the bright light of the smile, now softening at last out of irony. "So must you, my dear!"
The Last Paragraph of David Shield's How Literature Saved My Life
The Last Paragraph of David Shield's How Literature Saved My Life
I wanted Literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this---which is what makes it essential.