Why "The Ambiguities"

Last page of Rolfe Humphries' wonderful translation
of The Aeneid with my sophomoric marginal note.

March 16, 2014

Why “The Ambiguities”?

“So, what happened next, Uncle Ted?”  Now, another Ted is the nephew, and this Ted is the uncle.  “What happened next with Uncle Albert?”

          “The best answer to that is ‘hmmmm.’  The story ends with ‘Get your keys.’

          “All true-life stories end with something like that: ‘Oh . . . boy.’  ‘See you tomorrow.’  ‘Get your keys.’”

The epic begins in medias res.  Stories in life, however epic or trivial, end there. 

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(because it’s in the middle)