The problem with the "it was all a dream" tactic is that it generally allows readers to dismiss the preceding narrative as arbitrary and unwarranted: after all, anything can happen in a dream.
In the book's final pages, it is revealed that the preceding narrative has been one character's fictionalized account of events, which in "real life" didn't end quite so satisfyingly.
What is fascinating to see is how the blind prisoners are admitted to the quarantine camp in the order in which they made fleeting contact in the preceding narrative: a pharmacy clerk, a cop, a hotel maid, all connected via the fleeting and heedless contact of the modern, uncaring city, and now joined in a chain of terrible significance.
The second, and much longer, section of this book is a series of autobiographical reflections on the preceding narrative: digressions on the End of History and Hegel, on his refusal to participate fully in the Paris demonstrations of May 1968, on his travels and his intellectual mentors.
However, now that these men, who enjoy a well deserved fame, have received from us also the eulogies they merit, we shall pass on to the continuation of the preceding narrative.
I just felt that, you know, I'd read most of that and understood most of 1 to 6 in the preceding narrative.
However, our preceding narrative synthesis of the quality assessment concluded that this evidence is not of sufficient quality to be confident that auditory training represents a strategy for improving the percept and severity or handicap of tinnitus.
In the point narrative preceding the counterpoint narrative below, Dr. Home provides his opinion and review of the data to date showing that we need to carefully evaluate meta-analysis, and we need to learn what results are reliable.
In the point narrative preceding the counterpoint narrative below, Drs. Schwartz and DeFronzo provide an opinion that now is the time to consider GLP-1 receptor agonists as a logical consideration for inpatient glycemic control.
In the preceding Bench narrative, Kudva and colleagues provide an in-depth understanding of the modified glucoregulatory physiology of type 1 diabetes that will help refine future AP algorithms.
