The author "looks at Egypt from there, inserting herself in a narrative on the relationship between east and west, here and there, us and them," said Samia Mehrez, a professor of modern Arabic literature at the American University in Cairo.
He thinks about going back in the narrative to insert a sentence about the second time he went to the bathroom, which is currently missing, but he isn't sure where to insert it, or if he wants to insert it.
She plays a little with structure, inserting into this narrative of a voyage of personal and historical discovery the book that Kathleen herself is writing.
When Allyson gets to college, Forman inserts a poignant critique of hyper-parenting into the narrative.
In addition, Harford, otherwise a strong writer, has an affinity for inserting into the narrative his own experiences even though they seem to be limited to kaffeeklatsches with peers.
The notion of 40 days and nights of rain is from a single sentence inserted into a larger narrative in which, as scholar Richard Eliot Freedman writes, Yahweh unleashes "a cosmic crisis in which the very structure of the universe is endangered".
"We are moving from persuasion based on rhetoric to persuasion based on tables and videos inserted into narrative text".
