Does a Period Mean It’s the End?

By A.M. Larks

I want to write a sentence with no end. This, however, is impossible because eventually I will run smack into a full dot stop. The period. But I have always wondered: why? Why must we put an end to a thought that is so clearly connected to the next? Why must any punctuation, save for the lovely comma, cause a stop when in my head none exists?

The period, like the paragraph break, is for the decency of the reader, it has been explained to me. To signal to you that this is a...