The British Journal of Aesthetics 2002 42(4):415-418; doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/42.4.415
© 2002 by British Society of Aesthetics
The Tale and the Teller
R. A. Sharpe1
1 Department of Philosophy, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK
I shall describe yet another problem about fiction, similar in some respects to the paradoxes of fiction on which so much ink has been spilt over the last quarter of a century. Since fictions are made up, what considerations stop us from making up our own endings to a fiction which is incomplete or whose ending we have lost or missed or whose ending is unpalatable?

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