Which, needless to say, never happens. Fiction seems a losing game, a desperate ploy to delay or deny the end of the tale. Or maybe not. Walker recalls a scene in Carl Dreyer's Ordet in which a dead person rises again. It moves him to tears, and to reflect, on the one hand, "that was just a story, a make-believe story in a make-believe world, and this is not that world, and there will be no miraculous resurrections." And, on the other, "What cannot happen has happened, and you are stunned by what you have witnessed." Despite his assaults against it, Auster's faith in his art holds firm: you will know the fiction, and the fiction will set you free.
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