But, basically, I tried to say that When Harry Met Sally is like a piece of prose, and Annie Hall is a poem because it uses cinematic devices figuratively, like poems, and it rhymes scenes, whereas When Harry Met Sally is a continuous narrative.
He called the descriptions "Images," and, as he assembled them, he came to believe that they could be read as "a continuous narrative or film on the Industrial Revolution," much as he had meant "May the Twelfth" to be read as a film of the coronation.
Many of these paragraphs link with their successors, so that a continuous narrative is not hard to construct; but some are opaque, eccentric, so that we experience deliberate discontinuities and obstructions.
How you tell the story is entirely up to you; it can be a series of vignettes, a continuous narrative that develops throughout the collection, or something else entirely".
A hurricane occupies a central place in Jack Kerouac's patchwork novel "Visions of Cody," which is long but which, as the Times reviewer put it when it finally appeared in full in 1975, can be read "in bits and pieces as if it were a book of poetry rather than a continuous narrative because it simply is not a continuous narrative".
A hurricane occupies a central place in Jack Kerouac's patchwork novel "Visions of Cody," which is long but which, as the Times reviewer put it when it finally appeared in full in 1975, can be read "in bits and pieces as if it were a book of poetry rather than a continuous narrative because it simply is not a continuous narrative".
It's not easy to extract a continuous narrative from his books, anyway, because events bounce around chronologically, styles and points of view shift, and there are gaps and stray threads.
The other figures are artfully arranged to imply a continuous narrative of movement, the poses progressing "from reclining to sitting to standing to diving"; at the same time, each figure is carefully positioned so that no genitalia are visible.
And though Pamukassures us this is a different book from thecollection that came out under the samename in Turkey eight years ago, newlyshaped to form a "continuous narrative"that is also an autobiography in disguise,it feels more like a rich and suggestive setof explorations than a single story.
The only way to construct a continuous narrative about Picasso is to accept the idea that art is a competitive sport and its meanings are a form of gossip.
