Since my decision to wrap up Dreaming in Code without a conclusive ending to the Chandler saga left me dealing with complaints (unfair! not true!) that I’d “bailed out,” I have become inordinately obsessed with tracking examples of successful creative works that lack a traditional conclusion.
Students of the epic understand that the classic form of that tradition begins in medias res — and ends that way, too.
Mitch Kapor and Tony Soprano could never be tagged as “separated at birth.” But I’m proud that my little book now has something in common with America’s highest-regarded TV series.
UPDATE: On the other hand, the Sopranos ending left Dave Winer with Post-Traumatic Sopranos Stress Disorder.
[tags]dreaming in code, sopranos[/tags]
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