Andy:
the end did not seem "happy" nor discontinuous to me: it was perfect poetry; the only way it could have been. remember when we (i think it was you and i and RED?) watched a silly movie called Requiem for a Dream? we talked about how it was in some ways the opposite of most Hollywood crap: instead of slathering out gloss and overcoming pre-packaged adversity for the hero to somehow pull it off in the true "happy ending", RFAD showed utter depravity and hopelessness -- leaving you feeling the same sense of junk emptiness afterwards. real human experience is always so much more nuanced, subtle.
of course the Road is hardly subtle, but...
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