The end is just the beginning

Dante's Empyrean, the end-point of all end-points, by John Flaxman, 1807

All good things must come to an end, all journeys must draw to a close. So that better ones may begin.

We always remember how a story ends, even when we remember nothing else about it. And the sacrilege of revealing the ending in the absence of appropriate rites is widely proscribed.

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