"As soon as the story was ready, we published," she said, adding that "the Prism story is part of a narrative the Guardian has published along with the Verizon story".
But there is a flattening of narrative, too, through this prism of techno-capital.
When viewed through the prism of "countering the #Daesh narrative", these movies make uncomfortable viewing.
But in the mid-1950s Ms. Tanning broke from the mirrorlike precision of narrative Surrealism to take up what she called her "prism" paintings, later renamed "Insomnias".
But to hear her reflect on her life is to peer into a prism through which a ringside view of landmark historical events and a narrative of intrigue, romance and bravery are refracted.
That led to a discussion of the nature of reality as seen through the prism of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, and from there to a biographical narrative on Einstein's science and life.
Of course, there is a caveat to all this: Everything comes to us through the prism of Philip's words, and even he admits that readers may want to fling "charges of narrative fraud" in his direction.
Today, when we look back on the Great Depression, we have a clear narrative in mind — a narrative that has been fine-tuned this last year or so, as we've re-examined it through the prism of the current crisis.
