The book opens with a vision of Yahweh, God of Israel ; moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as Yahweh's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a new Temple.

As the first book closes, Paul has triumphed.

* Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale closes with a chapter set at a conference taking place some time after the events of the rest of the book, in which scholars question the authenticity of the earlier manuscript.

Finally, Spider-Man's hand closes the comic book.

The book closes with a letter written by a woman in Tennessee whose niece is developing telekinetic powers.

ALP is given the final word, as the book closes on a version of her Letter and her final long monologue, in which she tries to wake her sleeping husband, declaring " Rise up, man of the hooths, you have slept so long!

Patrick McCarthy describes HCE's wife ALP as " the river-woman whose presence is implied in the " riverrun " with which Finnegans Wake opens and whose monologue closes the book.

The book version closes with a chapter in which Homer Smith ( remembered as " Schmidt ," the nuns ' name for him ) and what he did have blossomed into a myth among the townsfolk.

After the credits, God ( Alanis Morissette ) closes the View Askewniverse book that still has pages left in it.

The moral of Alexi's story notwithstanding, Beauty willfully disobeys, and the book closes with her being sentenced to brutal slavery in the neighboring village along while her master weeps.

The book closes as they are sent across the sea to serve in the palace of the Sultan.

He comes down in Gaby's Marsh again, and vows in an insolent letter delivered to Uncle as the book closes that he will take a revenge " so fearful that anyone who speaks of it will develop lockjaw ".

As the book closes, Prometheus talks about the past, wonders how men could give up their individuality, and charts a future in which they will regain it.

This in its turn introduces an appalling description of the great pestilence which devastated Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and thus the book closes.

The details of both findings are documented in Davis's 1912 publication, The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou ; the book closes with the comment, " I fear that the Valley of the Kings is now exhausted.

" Puttenham's book covers a general history of the art of poetry, and a discussion of the various forms of poetry ; the second treats of prosody, dealing in turn with the measures in use in English verse, the caesura, punctuation, rhyme, accent, cadence, proportion in figure, which the author illustrates by geometrical diagrams, and the proposed innovations of English quantitative verse ; the section on ornament deals with style, the distinctions between written and spoken language, the figures of speech ; and the author closes with lengthy observations on good manners.

The book opens with a full page miniature of the four evangelists and closes with two facing pages each also with a full page miniature of the evangelists.

The book closes with the sentence, " I claim no sceptre but my pen, no crown but that bequeathed by my father and mother: my dignity.

The book closes with Burgess clarifying his theme:

The immense air opens and closes my book.

The book closes with Ned joining the police force after dropping out of college, and he pulls Sandy over to shed B.

* David Seabrook's 2003 book All the Devils Are Here ( Granta Books ), exploring murders and unsolved / unresolved mysteries in Kent and the Isle of Thanet, closes with a poignant yet disturbing anecdote about Hawtrey.

The book closes with Marlee returning the initial $ 10 million bribe to Fitch, having used it to make several times that much, and warning Fitch that she and Nicholas will always be watching.

In his book, Russell said of Glasgow: " Pull over and stop the car ( if you dare ) and walk into the closes smelling of urine and rubbish, cluttered with dirt and debris.

The narrative was told in great detail in Tacitus ' History, book iv, although, unfortunately, the narrative breaks off abruptly at the climax.

The work, which breaks off abruptly in the summer of 410 at the beginning of the sixth book, is believed to have been written in 498 – 518.

The feature " Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue " comprised two tunes that had been in the band's book since 1937 but largely forgotten until Ellington, who had abruptly ended the band's scheduled set because of the late arrival of four key players, called the two tunes as the time was approaching midnight.

Part of the third book, which breaks off abruptly in the story of Theseus, has been lost.

* Cheeky trying to read the latest James Blond book in the bookshop – this would lead into a two-page ‘ drama ’ strip which would then end abruptly as the bookshop owner chased Cheeky from the store.

Her involvement in the last two books of the trilogy — and therefore during the War of the Lance — abruptly diminishes at the beginning of the second book, Dragons of Winter Night ( 1985 ).

In one segment, he looks up abruptly from his book and says " That cameraman has the motht muthcular legth ..." It was probably a Kovacs ad-lib, if one can judge from the off-camera laughter and the momentary shaking of the camera.

Khouri's family had not heard from her since 2000, when she abruptly left Chicago to write the book.

Dante interrupted his work at the fourteenth chapter of the second book, and though historians have tried to find a reason for this, it is still not known why Dante so abruptly aborted his essay.

* Kitty, a. k. a. Afrekete, the last lover mentioned in the book, met through Gerri ; she has a daughter and leaves abruptly back to Atlanta to visit her Mom and daughter.

" After Mr. Caro had been working on the book for more than a year, Moses agreed to sit for a series of seven interviews, one lasting from 9: 30 A. M. until evening, providing much material about his early life, but when Caro began asking questions (" for having interviewed others involved in the subjects in question and having examined the records — many of them secret — dealing with them, it was necessary to reconcile the sometimes striking disparity between what he told me and what they told me ") the series of interviews was abruptly terminated.

A total of ten books were written and all survive ; the tenth book breaks off abruptly with Caesar in Egypt.

This job was short-lived: he was abruptly fired in 1957 when United Press called him for a reaction to the launch of Sputnik 1, and he repeated to them a passage from his just-published book Earth Satellites and the Race for Space Superiority, in which he wrote, " For the first time since the dawn of history, the Earth is going to have more than one moon.

The comic book followed Zacek's further adventures as he battled Asura across the galaxies, through many millennia, and the story was interrupted abruptly in issue # 298, with Karmatron fighting Asura here on Earth in modern times.

In a possibly apocryphal story by fellow panelist Oscar Levant, her appearances on the show stopped abruptly after she answered a question by referring to Agatha Christie's book Ten Little Niggers, which was the original British title of the book Ten Little Indians ( later retitled And Then There Were None ).

The book ends rather abruptly with Lucian saying that their adventure there will be the subject of following books.

She continued to model for five years until aged twenty-four when, coinciding with the 1992 release of her second book, Discuss Disgust, she abruptly left modeling to take a job as a department lead and copywriter in Jakarta, Indonesia.