DAV
I like mystery. I don't like mystery novels. I notice that most mystery novels end with a solution to the mystery, and those solutions are always too simple or too stupid or too sympathetic or too ludicrously deus ex that I am convinced all of this literature is utterly human in design and, therefore, terminally fallible.
These endings are usually happy or clear and logical and so plum satisfying that I just don't know if I can take it anymore. Call me a quitter, but I don't think it's within the mere boundaries of reason to finish a story. My theory is that true mystery should leave the final moment of revelation to the imagination of the reader.
Let on that there's a logical answer, please! Let on the possibilities and limit them, but don't you dare dictate the ultimate ending to your plot. We both know that you lack the necessary intellect. I do.
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DAV, what are you talking about? Mystery, as a genre, is lame, but most endings do follow the one that you describe. And you know what? I love that! And what? Bring it! Your endings are awful. They are way too cruel. They lack closure. People, I believe, as a whole, desire closure, which they often do not obtain in life, so they have to get it somewhere. Quite being a cruel writer! - CEC
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