The secret was hidden in plain sight until Martha A. Sandweiss, the deductive historian who pieced together this narrative, happened to notice it.
"There is always a narrative happening within my work," Beeman tells Creators.
This does not rule out in principle the possibility of the narratives happening to contain historical information in part.
There are, after all, numerous possible solutions to these problems; a person who is looking the other way when a key narrative moment happens, for instance, can go back to the point he missed, or the story can be structured so that a user would still have a satisfying experience looking elsewhere.
Philip Guston's high-low combination of sophisticated painting and primitivistic cartooning also comes to mind, but unlike Guston's eventful narratives, little happens in Mr. Calvin's pictures.
But 1861 and 1941 each created a common national narrative (which happened to be the victors' narrative): both wars were about the country's survival and the expansion of the freedoms on which it was founded.
"We were marching toward E3 and all the pieces were coming together, we had the story stuff, the narrative things happening during the game then we had this sign coming up saying 'victory' like every other games does.
Story — "what happens," the narrative material — is what drives the whole shape and feel of the thing; only it's not one overarching story but a succession of strongly colored phases of a life, each dramatically distinct from the others (though, of course, there's a cumulative effect, too).
"I could say that the narrative actually happened to me, in some strange way.
The implicit and conditional universality in Augustine's suffering-and-redemption narrative — "This happened to me, and could happen to you, if you did what I did" — became indicative and explicit in the memoir of political suffering: "What happened to me happened to many others".
