A key aspect of the Gamble narrative is his affliction with a condition named AIWS, literally Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.
When novelists decide to write a book about contemporary political or social events, they always engage in a narrative gamble: will the episodes they're choosing to chronicle still feel timely and relevant come publication?
But if I'm right, then Nic Pizzolatto took a serious -- and brilliant -- artistic gamble in the narrative arc of his screenplay, a wager calculated on a deep dark propensity in the American psyche.
Not every gamble pays off – certain narrative backalleys remain under-illuminated – but it's strongly performed and full of bold, eye- and ear-catching directorial choices.
Yet gambling and despair make for a surprisingly buoyant narrative, and Whitehead is a companionable if misanthropic guide to the Vegas strip, where "there are so many more disappointments to savor before dawn".
However, his narrative manipulated those concerns and underestimated the gamble of radicalization.
It is therefore important that a systematic review of psychiatric co-morbidity in treatment-seeking problem gambling samples is conducted to redress the limitations of these narrative reviews.
The gamble seems the greater as the poetry has no obvious narrative function, except to serve as a kind of authentication device, hints at a larger imagined world.
To date, only narrative reviews of psychiatric co-morbidity in treatment-seeking problem gambling samples are available (Petry, 2005; Specker et al., 1996; Westphal and Johnson, 2007).
Throughout the darting narrative, full of swirling juxtapositions, the sand-strewn set produced visions of Chinese laundries, opium dens, gambling halls.
