hope someone can help me

[rone]

If anyone has a copy of the edition of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age that actually contains an ending, i would greatly appreciate it if you lent it to me. The one i read seemed to be missing it.

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[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

"And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being. "Orgy-porgy," it sang, while the tom-toms continued to beat their feverish tattoo:

Orgy-porgy, nanobots are fun
Armies of Chinese babies with guns
Everything ends just on a whim
While the protagonist goes for a swim."

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Bwa ha ha.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Well played, sir.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

psst she's a gril

[wisn.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on. It's a Neal Stephenson book. You knew better. Or are you the type of person who hits yourself on the head three times because it might not hurt like it did the first two times?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yes, i'm just foolin'. I'd already been warned that, of all his non-endings, this was the worst. And yet.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

It was Microsoft. Microsoft ate the last chapter of his book. All his books.

Yeah.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Endings are so passe these days. Writing a novel with an ending is like making an LJ comment which has a point.

ha ha ha ha ha.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Sure, got one right here.

I've got a lyric sheet for Loveless, too.

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

Rick obtains the exit visas but stays in Casablanca while Ilsa and Victor escape to America by plane.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

For a long time, I've thought that Terry Pratchett was one of the best authors of endings currently active. I figure he could make a fair amount of money ghost-writing endings for writers who are less skilled at that art, like, say, Neal Stephenson (who just stops writing) or Haruki Murakami (whose endings are slightly more abrupt than the ending of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, only without the motorbike courier turning up to pick up the manuscript).

Also, for Neal Stephenson's next birthday, I'd like to get him a DELETE key. Oh wait, he hand-wrote his last novel: in that case, he should have a fireplace too.