Or: "Followed by Love, Sweetie, Butt," meaning that the next course was an order of a pasta called love letters, sweetbreads, and halibut, and the pasta chef would answer back, "Love," and Dom, the sauté chef, would answer, "Sweetie, Butt" — a sequence of words that, if listened to with any detachment, seemed to constitute a narrative in their own right.
Naipaul's themes are fate, dissolution, bad luck; but he is also concerned with, beyond the story, the music – that is, a span of time, constituting a narrative or a life, comprising pauses in which the sword falls repeatedly, and in which nothing much is achieved.
But all of the subjects that I paint are inextricably bound to the evolution of material manipulations; their organization constitutes a narrative in its own right.
(Sure enough, one did: "OK, this sounds dramatic. What's the story?") Or have I– have most of us succumbed to the tedious, excessively revelatory ways of modern American society, which assumes that every ounce of everyone's life constitutes a narrative-in-waiting, a parable, a morality tale which assumes, in fact, that nothing is ever banal.
These narrative threads are, as the title suggests, parallel: they have barely any relation to one another and do not constitute a direct narrative line.
The subsequent strips, informed by cooperation from military sources, constitute a moving recovery narrative.
But The Book of Disquiet, made up of hundreds of short texts that constitute a sort-of narrative, is a perfect match for this drained faculty.
Her privileged life and her career as a prosecutor constitute a more complicated narrative than the one contemporary readers may expect of an African-American woman who lived during the first half of the 20th century.
The results constitute a thorough, coherent narrative on the interdependence of spouses' and AD patients' health.
Wright called it "a wonderful, quirky novel" that "giddies with the quality of its imagination", and constitutes "a playful narrative that breaks the rules of narrative and gets away with it".
The author explores the ways in which the narratives constitute a distinctive testimonial and memorial tradition, a claim supported by close readings and theoretical analysis that demonstrates how these narratives question hegemonic cultural discourses, empower reader-viewers as empathic witnesses, and provide communal sites for mourning, resisting, and remembering.
