The plot leaps back and forth across multiple timelines as the nature of Heidi's work is revealed.
If you feel there's too much information to include on just one line, you can have multiple timelines that span the same dates, but detail different themes.
The stories are simply drawn, without the gothic shadows and mad clutter of so many graphic novels, but the multiple timelines and digressions twist and slot together to form a structure as complex and improbable as any of Ware's paper toys "for the friendless, the weak of heart and the ignored".
The novel – which tells the story of the molecular biologist Benedict Lambert, great-great-great nephew of Gregor Mendel, who suffers from achondroplasia (dwarfism) – tackles science with tools that have become hallmarks of his writing: multiple timelines; an exploitation of the slippages and spaces between languages; a fascination with memory.
But for some reason time travel makes every screenwriter crossreference their time machine mechanic with all sorts of science questions about the nature of the universe: Are there multiple "timelines," or just one?
Different visual representations might be used to achieve this goal in future research (e.g. multiple timelines could be used to represent the access history of different files in one display, or they could be aggregated into one timeline and use color-scale to distinguish different items).
Those missing tags are critical to Facebook, as they let it display the photo on multiple timelines, generate notifications that drive return visits from those pictured, and give it a better sense of who to show a photo to in the news feed.
From the look of the trailer, this season might actually be the return to form that the show needs with the same brooding, atmospheric tone of the original season, and, apparently, multiple timelines.
The universe of the Drakengard series is split between multiple timelines.
The obscure references were all his, along with the format risks and multiple timelines: Community was adored by its fans because of Harmon's vision.
