"Yet when it comes to linking her life story to the plot's distant history, she's on shakier ground".
For a group of young professionals in New York in early 2010, the drug violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico was more than a distant news story.
He spoke digressively as we ate, quoting the Koran and telling stories of Islamic victories from distant history.
If we consider violence against women as something "other" – a distant, old-fashioned story to shiver over in delicious fear like a ghost story – we detach ourselves from the reality that on average two women per week are murdered by a current or former partner in England and Wales today.
In "Decoded," he answers existentially: "How distant is the story of your own life ever going to be?" In the lyrics, practically: Life stories told through rap/Niggas actin' like I sold you crack/Like I told you sell drugs, no, Hov' did that/So hopefully you won't have to go through that.
He does relate some (distant) family history, and tell some vivid stories of growing up in Hannibal.
Despite the abject conditions and the not-so-distant war, his story starts to feel like a typical rebellious-teenager narrative.
When the film was completed, Dauman screened it for the publisher's rep, who agreed that it was so unrecognizably distant from the stories that Maupassant should get no screen credit and Dauman would retain the rights to re-adapt them.
Paul Theroux is the thinking person's James Michener, a globe-hopping chronicler of distant lands whose stories, some reported, some invented, aim to inform and broaden, not merely engage, and permit the armchair voyager to stamp new visas in his intellectual passport.
Kirke thinks in the distant future basic stories and dialogue will be created entirely by computer algorithms, but in the nearer future algorithms will help with what he refers to as "Computer-aided Script Writing (CASW)." Collaborations where the writer takes the lead, importing theirs and other scripts into a system like Zenman, and using it to generate ideas for characters.
