Detective fiction presented us with unconnected events and gave us someone who could turn them into a coherent narrative.
The story is structured not as a series of unconnected events nor as an incoherent dream, but by having each panel have a specific purpose in the flow of the story.
At the same time it explores the very essence of storytelling and the role it plays in people's lives, especially when they are "confounded by the extremes" of war and social upheaval and need to somehow "stitch together unconnected events in order to understand" what is happening around them.
Last week there were two unconnected events in Europe but, almost certainly, they will impact on each other.
A series of apparently unconnected events — a double murder in a dark alley; the apparently accidental death of a young congressional staffer; important hearings up on Capitol Hill — bring together Cal and Della, who present an amusing clash of journalistic sensibilities and generational styles.
These apparently unconnected events all have one thing in common.
While a large earthquake can trigger tremors in distant, tectonically active regions, earthquakes and icequakes have been considered unconnected events.
A. The one I knew I had was the ability to assemble unconnected events and put them into a trend, which journalists do, which in a way allows you to predict the future.
But the two unconnected events highlight the potential danger from the primordial material that orbits in our cosmic neighbourhood.
In the end, I think we're connected by more than we understand, and the novel can explain some of that shared humanity by placing quite unconnected events side by side.
This baroque thriller, set in a Milan where mist seems to continually pour from the ground, opens with two apparently unconnected events: the discovery of a murdered child, buried under a war memorial, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962; and, almost four decades later, the shooting of a man in the street on the eve of an international political conference.
