What happened to William the Conqueror in the end? Same as James Bond – he exploded.
It’s a strange expression, “What happened in the end?” Looked at from a historical point of view, it implies that the final thing to happen is what happened overall – it was the most important, the defining thing. But life doesn’t have a tournament structure. For a mortal species, to focus on what happened last is a pretty downbeat way of looking at things. In the end, we die. But that’s not necessarily the main thing about us.
