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Putting aside Christianity's obvious redemption narrative, Wise seems to acknowledge that there's an inherent gloominess baked into Western religious traditions.
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Narrative-wise, she gets the whipping she deserves - with even the woman who beats her up feeling an instinctive dislike for her: "there was something about this little tramp that turned my stomach".
The middle is much more visual and lighter, narrative-wise.
Maya is the lightest of narrative guises: wise beyond her 19 years but convincingly coltish, she gives us an outsider's observations ("happiness seems kitsch to Chileans") and has a chirpy, wry sense of humour; when she falls in love, she writes her adoration and despair with hyperbole, exclamation marks and teenage wholeheartedness.
Instead the new record - released through NPG - pursued a narrative about 'the Wise One' and his struggle with 'the Banished Ones'.
Matthew's narrative tells of "wise men" (grk.μαγοι magoi) who follow a star to the house where Jesus dwelt, and indicates that the Magi found Jesus some time later, less than two years after his birth, rather than on the exact day.
As a further warning against the urge to seek safety on common ground -- moving to the center, as it were -- the writer highlights the menaces of cliché by parodying the worldly-wise narrative interventions of an earlier era.
The "older-wiser" narrative also exempts Indian Wells's past managers from accountability for their role in a regrettable episode – not least Pasarell, whom the Williams family claims did not offer any real apology on behalf of the tournament.
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