tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1999089465199150217.post4498658469849919920..comments2023-06-13T04:38:07.859-05:00Comments on High Concepts: Beauty's Wholeness, Or, Why We Care Who Killed Edwin DroodDaniel McInernyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17395718013706017328noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1999089465199150217.post-85280587919376810872011-09-14T20:42:39.070-05:002011-09-14T20:42:39.070-05:00You're perfectly right, Anonymous, to remind u...You're perfectly right, Anonymous, to remind us that the sense of order in our life's narrative is (in one sense of "relative") relative to the observer. For we ourselves, sometimes, fail to perceive how our life is heading in any coherent way toward wholeness, even though for others, and above all for God, it may be abundantly clear. Many works of literature, as you say, try to capture the ambiguity of our search for wholeness. Much modern poetry does so. Modern literature in general. The concrete example that soonest pops to mind is actually Sophia Coppola's film, LOST IN TRANSLATION--one of the most ambiguous endings in cinematic history. But I think it's significant that the majority of stories follow a pattern in which there is clear-cut resolution at the end, perhaps not to neatly tied up in a bow as in the classical detective story, but with a clear resolution nonetheless. What does this say about storyteller and the desires of the human heart--especially our desire for wholeness in God?Daniel McInernyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17395718013706017328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1999089465199150217.post-47716075112020859992011-09-14T13:52:48.958-05:002011-09-14T13:52:48.958-05:00To God, and to us in the end, all life and every l...To God, and to us in the end, all life and every life will have a "clear, neatly wrapped-up ending." It is only then that we realize that every life is a work of art by the Divine Artist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1999089465199150217.post-79253702283737211172011-09-13T17:18:21.664-05:002011-09-13T17:18:21.664-05:00If art imitates life, remeber that the events we e...If art imitates life, remeber that the events we experience in life often have no clear, neatly wrapped-up ending. The essentially human search for wholeness and truth is itself a beautiful thing, and this search is captured in works of literature that seem tantalizingly unfinished or leave certain ambiguities with which the reader will struggle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com