There is some accessible narrative fact material out there that uses the same techniques as fiction and evolves some of the same feelings as fiction.
Helena: Funnily enough, I did learn that lesson (about narrative fact) when I was writing my book about the women's game, Here Come the Girls.
She spent the next seven months in a frantic state as she endeavoured to complete the narrative, fact-check each of the historical details referenced in the novel, and decide on a title.
The book is full of narratives, facts, and statements that are, well, untrue, or at the very least, highly misleading.
It also distorts reality due to the sheer amount of narratives, facts, and information that abound indiscriminately.
The memorial aspect would be most obvious in the granite paving under the canopy, to be inscribed with narrative text, facts, statistics, quotations and poetry.
This moral is not new, nor is Grass's method of a crabwise narrative, revolving facts and incidents in a colloquial, sometimes humorous, somehow harried voice.
The request came after Commander Velvel told Sergeant Haarer to read through a "narrative of facts" about the killing written by Commander Velvel.
Judge Rakoff also questioned the S.E.C.'s narrative of facts behind Bank of America's decisions not to disclose Merrill's large losses and big bonuses to the bank's shareholders.
For the most part, however, Mr. Gore's stripped-down narrative emphasizes facts over emotion, common sense over portentous predictions an approach that proves considerably more persuasive than the more alarmist one assumed, say, by Tim Flannery in "The Weather Makers".
