John IrvingLife, " Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Life, as David Foster Wallace points out in his essay, “This is Water”, isn’t like a novel. It doesn’t have an inevitable conclusion that makes the rest of the story irrelevant. When you finally reach the end of your life, you will still be able to recall the memories and experiences that occurred up until that point.
Source: The World According To Garp
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