...text: 39 Lohafer, Coming to Terms with the Short Story, 96. 40 Torgovnick, Closure in the Novel, 5 It is the role of fictional plots to impose an end...Any narrative, that is, wants at its end to refer back to its middle, to the web of the text: to recapture us in its doomed energies.42 Maybe any narrative...

...a time before the beginning, and hence that the interminable never can be finally bound in a plot. Analysis, Freud would eventually discover, is inherently...generate new beginnings in relation to any possible end.19 It is the role of finctional plots to impose an end which yet suggests a return, a new beginning:...

...a time before the beginning, and hence that the interminable never can be finally bound in a plot. Analysis, Freud would eventually discover, is inherently...yet suggests a return, a new beginning: a rereading. A narrative, that is, wants at its end to refer us back to its middle, to the web of the text: to recapture...

...also identify with its form, turning the pages with an eye to our own mortality. Brooks concludes that "it is the role of fictional plots to impose an end...rereading. Any narrative, that is, wants at its end to draw us back to its middle, to the web of the text: to recapture us in its doomed energies" (111)....

...that a narrative has to elicit the feeling that the repetition of an entire work almost is mandatory: "It is the role of fictional plots to impose an end...yet suggests a return, a new beginning: a rereading" (109). Narratives thus have to arouse the desire to re-experience these narratives. And as I explained...