With a brilliant blend of abstraction and precision, this sequence establishes a tension between the intergalactic and the earthly that underwrites the subsequent narrative; an eerie tale of a space traveller inhabiting human form, prowling the streets of Glasgow in search of raw flesh.
The twists and turns of the subsequent narrative throw up some deadly surprises, which a reviewer would not want to give away.
Thucydides' subsequent narrative of the Peloponnesian War, however, presupposes it at a number of points, especially in the context of Greek dealings with Persia in 411.
Without requiring any actual crediting of the supernatural, the prologue overshadows the subsequent narrative.
The pact that the four make, designed to help them claw their way back from their individual miseries, provides the meat of the subsequent narrative.
The opening pages of Andrea Levy's fifth novel suggest that when we encourage someone to tell their story, we should be prepared to surrender to their voice, however capricious it may be; the subsequent narrative counters with the idea that this might be easier said than done.
The presence of the bomb should create a token (i.e., "[bomb]") in the viewer's event model that is associated with the car (e.g., Radvansky, 2005), which should be reactivated every time the car is in the frame, including its causal implications for subsequent narrative events (i.e., it creates imminent danger for anyone near it) (e.g., Myers & O'Brien, 1998).
"I think unfortunate when the subsequent narrative becomes focused on the privacy invasion rather than on the betrayal," she said.
To say that, he would not have used the words, "prematurely declared victory", and the antecedent narrative would not have been about the change in policy from spending to austerity, nor the immediate subsequent narrative about FDR reversing course and the economy improving.
An explicit orientation to this over-hearing audience is displayed in Massimo's announcement and subsequent narrative, where he talks about Dina in the third person (see also Extract 4, lines 1 5).
