I opened up the doors to Chinese commerce, letting them hold an exposition here, in which they brought everything they had — and they sold everything they brought".
They've flown in for the week from Wellington, where they insist they still live (although they spent most of 2007 in New York and LA); via a gadget exposition in Las Vegas, at which they performed.
Less successful are the potted and often undigested chunks of exposition in which Holden sets out to explain Prohibition and the scandals of the Harding administration.
Defying another rule of fiction, "Sunset Park" is written mostly in summary, large chunks of exposition in which we are told exactly what each character is thinking, feeling, facing.
It's a process known as exposition, in which every turn in the narrative – it would be a stretch to call anything a twist – is worth restating at least once.
The structure of fantasy calls for episodes of increasingly perilous action connected by passages of exposition, in which the necessary facts of history, geography and genealogy are revealed to the hero and, over his shoulder, to the audience.
In essence it consists of an exposition in which one or more themes are presented, the first (often forceful in character) in the tonic key and the second (often lyric) in the dominant.
It will be observed that when both themes appear recapitulated in the tonic, the function of the transition between themes differs from that in the exposition, in which it leads from one key to another.
There's a gradual exposition in which Mylène, like a princess in a castle, remains in the so-called fort where the couple lives (soon after they arrive, she discovers that she's pregnant) and Edgar, who's busy writing about his fictional characters (whom he calls his "creatures"), wanders through town running errands.
Over the course of the late 1st millennium BC, fu became the name of poetic expositions in which an author or composer created a comprehensive exposition and performed it as a rhapsody.
