As I intimated in the final paragraphs of my most recent post here, the position isn't fooling anybody.
This uncertainty is properly noted by the tone of the final paragraphs of this manuscript.
Until the final paragraph, which is powerful and quietly devastating, this hope is paramount.
(Spoiler alert: those who wish to avoid the twist should avert their eyes until the final paragraph...) On page 77, Rosemary reveals that Fern was a chimpanzee introduced into the family as an experiment run by her father.
Of that story, Borges wrote, "readers will witness the commission and all the preliminaries of a crime whose purpose will not be kept from them but which they will not understand, I think, until the final paragraph".
Until the final paragraph, that is, where Sedaris unexpectedly pulls focus, and explains that the "crummy side of swimming is that while you're doing it you can't really see much: … you can't pick things out — a man's face, for example, watching from the sidelines when, for the first time in your life, you pull ahead and win".
There is a sparkling miniature of the future light-heavyweight star José Torres, which does not mention his name until the final paragraph but, in true Talese fashion, immediately registers these facts: "In the closet of his $11-a-week 11-a-week 11-a-week40 Union Street, Brooklyn, he has 8 suits, a dozen silk shirts and 14 pairs ofurnished
Dorothy Samuels gave a fine recitation of the ills attending the current methods of electing our judges, but it was not until the final paragraph that she proclaimed the ultimate remedy to be so-called merit selection of state Civil and Supreme Court judges, a process requiring a change to our state's Constitution.
The article includes pictures of Corsi posing with Surprise Tea Party members, but it's not until the final paragraph that Corsi notes he gave a birther presentation to the group.
I avoided her because from the moment when I read the first few pages of the book until I closed it for the second and last time at the final paragraph: "Yes, with God's blessing!
But the final paragraphs of "Just Kids" seem like a more fitting counterpart for the show.
