Not with a bang but a whimper

Eliot told us how the world ends but many other things end more quietly, more invisibly, than we might imagine. Careers can end this way. Marriages can end this way. Personal motivations and dreams can end this way.

Now and again, of course, something can end with a bang. The marriage that inspired my video Deconstructing Sally ended with a bang that still echoed decades later, which was the energy behind making the work.

All things considered, it's probably healthy that most things end with a whimper. Whimpers are more survivable than bangs.