So I introduced the figure of the "thin child in wartime".
She has a day, and into this day she has introduced the figure of Charlie Ravioli — in order, it dawned on us, to insist that she does have days, because she is too harried to share them, that she does have an independent social life, by virtue of being too busy to have one.
Calder introduces the figures silently one by one, manipulating them and activating the low-tech mechanisms (cranks, pull-strings, air hoses) that animate their activities.
The club declined to comment on the accounts, but in his chairman's notes introducing the figures, Fernandes said: "When, alongside my business partners, I purchased a majority shareholding... my goal was to turn QPR into an established Premier League club.
Another method is that followed by Roger Corman in his 1967 reconstruction of The St Valentine's Day Massacre: you use a portentous narrator to introduce the figures involved and to give a sense of fateful inevitability to the proceedings.
Dos kleyne mentshele introduces the figure of Mendele the Book Peddler (Mendele Moykher Sforim), a folksy character who narrates some of Abramovitsh's best works.
Mentions of Clara's having spent an exorbitant $42.75 on a new dress and Aubrey's earning about $150 a month are useful, so that when a plot development introduces the figure $100,000, we are immediately struck by just how much money that was 90 years ago.
In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), Donna Haraway introduces the figure of the cyborg, an "impure" creature who scrambles orderly divisions between the natural and artificial/technical, and the human and the non-human/animal.
