Boxes fifteen to seventeen tell an eloquent if incomplete tale of a writer of remarkable focus and endurance.
The Cook's Tale, an incomplete story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, published in 1387 1400.
A tale that is necessarily incomplete but whose very incompleteness adds to its poignancy.
Though the story is imperfect and incomplete, Tolkien himself wrote that the tale set him off on a journey of world-building and fantasy-writing.
But the tale is often incomplete.
"Chapterhouse," published in 1985, ended with a cliffhanger, as an assortment of heroes fled into space on an interstellar craft called a no-ship, but when Herbert died the following year, his tale, while frustratingly incomplete, appeared to be at an end.
IN HIS preface, Horatio Clare writes, "the children of separated parents are raised on incomplete histories, fragments of a main tale which begins mysteriously and ends in failure".
In 1940 it was proved by examination of the Court of Chancery records about Hooker's estate that the story was a tale devised to explain the incomplete state of the last books of the Politie.
Cage wrote the stories on 30 notecards, shuffled them and read them in whatever order emerged, cutting off each tale after a minute even if incomplete.
Left incomplete at Offenbach's death in 1880 was his major serious opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on tales by the early 19th-century German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann).
"Some Ground to Stand On" feels incomplete, but it asserts that while Ms. Lunden's death is a loss, the tale of her unpretentious heroism is the viewer's gain.
