Although proximal technologies (eg, insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitors, closed-loop and artificial pancreas systems) have been the subject of frequent systematic and narrative reviews, distal technologies have received scant attention.
Since the book is shortish and the twists and turns frequent, the narrative is sometimes too quick for the comfort of readers who did not live through its times.
In addition, there have also been frequent popular narratives stating that streams and rivers that were once had abundant water are drying, which is possibly due to deforestation (Santos et al. 2006).
At frequent intervals the narrative executes a nice flourish in the form of some densely emblematic image or epigrammatic remark.
Readers have to endure not only the absence of direction and analytic argument, but also frequent redundancies and narrative switchbacks.
Milford punctuates the narrative with frequent asides in the form of an ongoing dialogue — a tug-of-war — with her patron and primary source, Norma, the poet's vestal and the biographer's Nemesis, who dropped cryptic hints about deeper mysteries that remained unsolved and let slip that she had destroyed certain overly revealing or unseemly materials, including pornographic photographs.
Second, the Italian narratives make frequent use of the word 'crisis'crisis
And, as always in his fiction, the narrative voice enjoys frequent English wordplay: the history of religious cinema is neatly summarised as running from "De Mille to Mel".
While other episodic games have had a few episodes strung out over a long period or are more frequent but lack a cohesive narrative, Telltale's series is like a situation comedy with individual episodes connected by a story arc.
In between is a more conventional chronological narrative, but with frequent engaging interventions (like those of a 19th-century novelist) in which Bulgakov discusses such issues as why "my hero" daftly persisted in believing he was equipped to write tragedies.
