Some of the pictures had captions, carefully lettered in black ink on a black line drawn with a straight edge, but the chronology was erratic, and the narratives were interrupted, suggesting that the album had once come apart, and had been put back together haphazardly.
There is much going on here: the English slang "grief" and "t'spit o", all wrapped up in erratic grammar as the narrative gathers pace with Alsatian and aubergine sari converging.
Atkinson said of the narrative, "The erratic and pointless leapfrogging between its storylines is torporific ... all three stories are assembled piecemeal, many of which repeat over and over as flashback and flashforwards".
McCain Parachutes into Temperament Narrative">erratic behavior and erratic campaign.
The flow of the narrative can sometimes be erratic, however, veering from amusing personal stories to a didactic recounting of the taxonomy of rabbit parasites or legislation relevant to pest control in Australia.
The narrative's perambulations are similarly erratic, with bursts of action giving way to longueurs, and the first half of the book reads like a shaggy-dog story, hobbled by a distracting murder subplot.
The true star of the book is George Brown, Wilson's brilliant and erratic secretary for economic affairs and then foreign secretary, who lurches through the narrative in a fog of gin, lewd behaviour and diplomatic incident.
Walter White's diagnosis of lung cancer is the engine that drives the narrative arc of "Breaking Bad" — his looming death sentence helps to explain his erratic and often truly awful decisions.
Yet after "Bad Lieutenant" I have begun to wonder if the narrative that many of us have grafted onto his career — the early if erratic promise, the mature successes, the dire midlife choices — does him an injustice.
But the practical effect of his investigation is to stand the received narrative on its head, transferring prime responsibility from grass-roots bigots, local politicians and erratic Army brass to the president and a small group in Washington.
The blaze, fanned by strong but erratic winds, skipped certain trees, houses and villages, adding another layer of contradiction to the conflicting narratives in this part of the land.
