That sounds simple enough — and plays into the on-demand narrative currently dominant in the tech industry — but the sign up process, which is used to verify the person wishing to be insured is who they say they are and has a full driving license, is a little more involved.
Your piece ends on a rather pessimistic note, suggesting that there is rarely a clear picture until one is formed by a journalist or a committee — in other words, until a disaster leads us to demand a narrative explanation.
But Shakespeare goes beyond the demands of narrative in capturing the mental fluctuations of old age.
Received wisdom is that, unlike their commercials-trained predecessors, pop promo directors simply had not learned to handle the demands of narrative cinema.
Holocaust dramatizations are almost always vexatious, courting the danger of trivialization by forcing terrible events to conform to the demands of narrative.
Roberts uses the new revelations to deliver a long delayed glory to Louis Lachenal and to explore the tension between the demands of narrative, the duty of historical accuracy and the fallibility of memory.
The two things are distinct, but not separable, and in a sense highlight the inherent paradox of the Symbolist novel: how is the inwardness, the fatalistic paralysis of Symbolist art to be wedded to the demands of narrative?
Too often, they seem to be following the demands of narrative convention rather than their own impulses, and certain developments in the plot — a gunshot, a violent robbery — seem arbitrary and implausible.
As a creator of strip cartoons, each demanding a narrative set-up and punch line, he has had to function as a literary as well as a graphic artist.
