y fire or by ice? wondered Robert Frost. With a bang or with a whimper? wondered T.
S. Eliot. In the chronicles of our mortal race there may have been one or two people,

for example William ("I decline to accept the end of man") Faulkner, who did not concede that a bold Finis would one day be scrawled at the conclusion of the human saga. There may have been one or two who would not have been tempted-were only it possible!-to skip ahead to the final chap- ters of our story and discover ho...