On the contrary, the "true self" alluded to here is an on-going narrative construction: the composition of one's own autobiography through one's concrete ways of acting over the course of a life as a whole.
The Devil's Playhouse followed a structure similar to 'Tales of Monkey Island, with each episode forming a part of an on-going narrative, involving psychic powers and forces that would use them for world domination.
It certainly makes for fewer headaches among game designers: "failing" the player and obliging a restart is easier than finding some way to weave that failure into the on-going narrative, or account for it in the make-up of the world.
He had a very clear idea of how he wanted the story line to work: "There is a narrative going on, a romantic triangle on a weekend at this polo mansion," he said.
But I also think it brings home the immediacy of what's going on in the narrative.
For a moment, I felt as if this play was going to take on a narrative.
He told the paper: "There's a bit of a Frankenstein narrative going on – they created the monster and now I've turned on them".
There's a strange supernatural narrative going on, but it's all a bit "will this do?" via Rentaghost.
Urquhart's prose is as smooth and uncluttered as her fellow Canadian Margaret Atwood's but there's so much chipping and chiselling going on, the narrative is in danger of being whittled away.
There's a burgeoning underground narrative going on and it's time for it to surface.
As a film journalist, I need to serve many masters -- drama, documentary, comedy, horror, etc. -- and since I tend to favor independent releases, 'cause that's where the truly exciting, innovative stuff is going on, I suppose my narrative standards should be more highly evolved.
