Ahhh, they're hard! Very hard to get the last words perfect, so I fiddle and twitch and skew.*
I settled on the word project. Prrrroject (a woody sort of word). I was hoping to use scuffle, with its enticing whiff of best-selling sequel;** or harbinger and go paranormal goth, but project is the antithesis of prank and it's that kind of Hegelian summing up of my latest story Life at School which is sure to pull in readers.
Project. It will stand humbly 'midst literature's most famous last words. Words like honor (Madame Bovary), stars (The Divine Comedy) and horses (the Iliad).
Upward! (David Copperfield, with original punctuation).
Multiply (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater), and toast the-kind-that-you-eat toast (Three Men in a Boat)****.
Yes, yes. I think---project is quite the right sort of last word.
A good couple of weeks' worth of work, if I do say so myself...
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*All of which would make wonderful last words Now all I have to do is write the stuff that comes before 'em.
**And if that did well, trilllliogy would be on everyone's lips.
***Aufhebung really means I'll have another one.
