The first of the narratives, 'As the Snow on the Alps', involves the artist Mathias Grünewald in the early 1500s.
Knowing little about Palestine, but recognising that the feast of the Holy Innocents fell on December 28th, Brueghel placed the narrative in a snow-bound Flemish village.A group of knights, led by a figure in black armour, rides down the main street.
Today scientists and politicians are more contentious, but Snow's dramatic narrative remains the best guide.
He never graduated from college, though Carlos Torretta, a friend since boarding school, cautioned against reading too much into Mr. Snow's outsider narrative.
Du Yun, in her string quartet "Tattooed in Snow" (2015), also espoused narrative: "a nuanced multi-layer narrative trajectory," in her words.
The finest snow story of all, however, was buried on page D14 in last Wednesday's paper, a reminiscence of the snows of yesteryear and the origins of the weather-narrative form in newsrooms.
His first assignment is to create an immersive digital magazine experience, a lean back read that will include new, multimedia narratives in the tradition of Snow Fall and last weekend's compelling account of the Arizona fire, as well as some of the best reads published during the previous week.
Through the dome and the window as well, the reader sees snow covering the entire narrative setting.
It is exceptionally powerful, full of the mournful narrative of middle Canada, pine forests and snow and the memory of watery sunlight.
Tracks can tell a fascinating tale, but the narrative is clearest when the snow is fresh.
