On what seems to be an anti-imperial principle and ends up as anti-clarity practice, more than half the play is given in South Asian languages, so, unless you are poly-poly-lingual, whole passages, and bits of plot, will get lost in the woods.
"Augustown" doesn't match the stereotype of a "poet's novel"—that is, it isn't introspective, replete with long passages of description, and scant of plot.
So skillful is his knife work that when the drama shifts into idle in a few windy passages between the neatly spaced turns of plot, you may wonder what Mr. Mamet could possibly have cut out.
We generated MDPs of all 4299 genotypes over 22 passages, and plots of these profiles together with culture size standard deviations are available (File S2).
Way Station remains interesting in spite of its clunky plot and many passages of painfully wooden dialogue.
Yet both spent their dozen years in school reading books with a stack of Post-Its in hand to flag passages and with printed diagrams beside them to fill in with aspects of plot, character, affect, and style.
Now and then, a critic feels the need to tilt against "Ulysses," to complain of a byzantine difficulty in certain passages, to lament Joyce's leaps of logic and illogic, his utter sacrifice of plot.
Lerner is attempting to capture something that most conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and scene and "conflict," fail to do: the drift of thought, the unmomentous passage of undramatic life.
Cornwell's plot is enlivened by passages of clear beauty as he describes the natural world in which such horrors take place: "The current drew the trailing willow fronds downstream.
Then I write, write, write -- pages and pages of notes, passages, dialog, chapters, plot lines -- until the characters begin to emerge and the story begins to tell itself, the single right story that wants to be told.
