I Hate Loose Ends

I woke up this morning, blinked at the ceiling and decided that I felt positively out of sorts. Yep, a lack of sleep is one main reason.

And also, it's because of a certain wonderful dratted book that I just read. The History of Love.

It was a beautiful read.

I find myself pausing at every page just to drink in the sheer poetry of the author's prose.

I could jump right into the main characters' shoes and feel what they are going through.

But (and here's a very big BUT), the book left me feeling disgruntled.

Instead of a sense of completion, I was left hanging with many questions.

"Huh? You mean to say the guy was hallucinating about his buddy all along?"

"Why didn't that dratted boy pass the phone message to his sister? So darn annoying!"

"When in the world did Zvi get that eulogy lar??"

Good thing Pebbles read the book and I could discuss the book with her. Otherwise, I'd still be stewing with all these unanswered questions. The book didn't fall into a sequential timeline and me being a straightforward kinda person, I get confused when timelines are messed up.

I get frazzled when someone raises good questions and then never answers them.

I get put off when there are loose ends in the books I read.

Conclude!

Summarize!!

Recap!!!

Put it in a nutshell!!!!

Then again, there are certain folks who see things that simply aren't there. Even seemingly straight-forward endings can have a host of varying interpretations. There was one local movie, Sepet, which exemplifies this point. The hero ended up as dead as a door knob. After he died, his girlfriend received a phone call from him. It was crystal clear to me. He died and he 'called' from the afterlife as a symbol of his undying love.

And yet. There were some folks who thought that he didn't die after all. And all sorts of other theories sprang to the surface. And this was from a movie with a clear-cut ending. Imagine if these same folks read The History of Love... shudder

The sequel of the movie, Gubra, confirmed that the hero in Sepet did actually die. See? Let's call a dead dog a dead dog, that's what I say.

The world is already filled with oodles and oodles of unanswered questions. Please don't add to them lar.

But then again, Pebbles said that the best literary works are the ones that stay in your mind long after you've read them.


Sigh...