Nigeness

 To round off this mini-anthology of endings (and the month of April), here is a miscellaneous collection with no obvious linking features.....

 Eudora Welty said of the last sentence of Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, 'If I had written that sentence, I'd...

 Recently I've been thinking about, and discussing with an online friend, great endings in literature – those passages that close a book...

 Exciting news today from the somewhat rarefied scholarly world of penis-counting – specifically counting penises on the Bayeux Tapestry. Fo...

 One of the Lichfield luminaries featured in Anna Seward's wildly eccentric biography of Erasmus Darwin (which I wrote about here ) is T...

 If – which heaven forbid – there were to be only one (alcoholic) drink available to you for the rest of your life, which would you choose? ...

A happy Easter to all who browse here! And above is my favourite Resurrection painting again – Rembrandt's Christ and Mary Magdalen at t...