Book VIII tailpiece
ON THE STORY THAT GOES ON FOR EVER
So this story ends the same as all other stories that ever were written, and that is happily.
And really there is only one Story, and it is the best Story in the world; but it is not finished yet, and never will be.
And this Story grows better and better all the time, which is how we know it from the written stories that we read.
But it is told in bits, so that unless we're sort of in the secret, we may mistake it for a lot of little stories, all separate, and all telling against each other.
Yet all the little bits fit in together at the end most perfectly; and not one word is wasted, although it seems as if there would be thousands; to say nothing of bad spellings, and erasures, and great blots of ink and tears.
And it is the same end always, and always a happy end.