so it's as if you don't actually finish the book... i don't get it... it makes sense to read the book and understand how the author wanted it to end, as opposed to rawing your own conclusions from it... or perhaps i'm missing the point totally...
2006-07-01 03:09:31 · 12 answers · asked by soulsearcher 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Probably carries a deeper meaning, as in, don't dwell in the past or fret over things that have already happened that you cannot change...
2006-07-01 03:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by beadtheway 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could mean different things, depending on how you understand it.
Imagine reading a book. When you flip the page you've just read, you realize that the page you are staring at is the last page. This quote might literally be understood to say that you should close the book before reading the last page. Which can figuratively mean that you should ponder on all the things that you've read up to that point, and see how everything leads to where you are now. Or it might mean that you should attack the last page of the book with a fresh mind.
Or maybe you need to read the last page first before you close the book. Which means that you should leave the past in the past and get on with the present in the present. Or it could mean that you should make sure that when things seem finished, they really are finished.
The trouble with quotes is that they can have so many meanings, and the only certain way to know if its interpretation is "correct" is if someone really believes in that interpretation. So the bottom line is, whatever you think a certain quote means, that's exactly what it means.
2006-07-01 03:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by walrus carpenter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hiya. Yeah, this is one of those very perplexing old 'literal metaphors-with something missing' folklore items. It should of course read "when you get to the last page , close the book and make yourself a nice hot chocolate and cull a savoury biscuit. Sit down, amidst a cackophony of loud pillows and enjoy that last page". I mean..........would anyone write 843 pages of a turgid potboiler set in an up and coming district of LA and then say " erm please dont read the last page. I think not. I further think that no human person type would be .....erm....welol frankley, so stupid as to not read the last page because of an old cranky bit of folklorio stupido belifio. Pu-l-ease
I have to admit to never hearing this particular piece of folkloric tom foolery. As if! Well bugger. I was really enjoying this small town hot thriller and I am at last at the stage of solving the caplinski double homicide suicide with added time dilation and now I haffta shut my book.
Did we ask for the stoopid pill?
dadaboy
2006-07-01 12:33:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess in life there is always one trouble after the other and with books you come to an end, maybe a possible solution. Like life a solution never lasts for long-i hope this makes sense.
i guess it's closing a chapter before needed, getting some closure, leaving one part of life to the side and moving on.
2006-07-01 09:25:34 · answer #4 · answered by smile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like the place you're going with this, i actually do even though this is important to contemplate writing slightly greater in intensity with reference to the full adventure. It basically looked a sprint rushed yet anyhow if there replaced right into a e book like this i could proceed to be sure it. Oh! that's a tenet even though it may be cool if the guy whilst to a detective to categorise or look up the lady to be certain who she replaced into then the detective says what the psychic mentioned and likewise mentioned the he/she have been following circumstances like this for years. Like I mentioned that's a tenet and in basic terms a tenet.
2016-11-01 01:11:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the person who said this must have read a lot of books with crap endings.
on a more philosophical note, since this is the philosophy section after all. "you may have lived your life the way someone else scripted, but the last page of it should be written by you."
2006-07-06 00:17:25 · answer #6 · answered by Nessie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine treats books far too seriously.
This book sentence could be used as a metaphor for life. Life itself seems to be too important to be taken too seriously.
A certain amount of living and a certain amount of analysis, is my own favoured way of living.
2006-07-04 03:20:03 · answer #7 · answered by Sciman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you get the the back cover page, turn it, and read past what the book says, and read what it means...
2006-07-01 05:57:51 · answer #8 · answered by her half dead lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a metaphor.
I would interpret it along the lines of: when you've finished with something, finish it. Make closure and don't go back.
2006-07-01 03:15:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could mean when your done with the book, close it & don't read anymore into it.
2006-07-01 04:02:26 · answer #10 · answered by cricket 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋