Sir, – Thank goodness James Joyce did not follow Andrew Fox's advice on how to end a story ("Certain things are off-limits. You never write a story ending with snow", Arminta Wallace, February 18th).
Otherwise, the moving end of one of the greatest short stories would not be with us: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." [From The Dead by James Joyce]. – Yours, etc, JOHN PINSCHMIDT Kilmallock, Co Limerick.