In episode 6, we unpack the gravity of endings, featuring a discussion that takes us from Walter Benjamin and Queen Latifah to bucket lists and Russian formalism. We hope you enjoy the final episode of 2023, and we can't wait to see you in the new year!

Timestamps

00:30 intro and some personal endings

11:20 how did we end up here? a necessary prelude

23:55 it was just a dream, and other disapppointing finales

44:50 stories, stories about stories, and stories about storytellers

1:13:10 and everybody clapped: a case study of self-narrativization

1:43:45 outro and well wishes

Resources

Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods. http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_inblackwaterwoods.html

Last Holiday (2006) dir. Wayne Wang.

Bell, Stuart (2016) "Don't Stop": Re-Thinking the Function of Endings in Narrative Television. PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7282/

“All Just A Dream.” https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllJustADream

Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending.

Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller. https://arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%20docs/Walter%20Benjamin%20Storyteller.pdf

Wallace Stevens, Angel Surrounded by Paysans. https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/08/09/angel-surrounded-by-paysans/

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44400/spring-and-fall

Amazing Grace (2018) dir. Alan Elliott.