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A film montage is really a perfect way to describe the ending of the story.

Or what you could call an ending. In some ways I liked how the book ended, leaving the character at a point where he could finally experience the beginning of a life in a new phase of life. It was like coming from beginning to end, and then to the beginning again. An odd thought, like seeing the start at the stroy finally being revealed at the end of a movie with the characters looking about like they were blinded by the sun. A more retrospective look in a fresh new light of thinking that almost seemed to come from another voice than the book had been written through Erik. I wonder if Husdvedt was trying to tell us a better way to find the answers to our questions was to simply look at it in another way rather than continue puzzling through the same issues over and over again.