It is almost like witnessing a force of nature: with its persistent bass tones and sudden climaxes, a small earthquake perhaps or a tsunami.
And it does this not by imitating traditional narrative procedures (male ones, in Richardson's view), with their conflicts and linear progressions and sudden climaxes, but by experimenting with a new kind of narrative, one in which every incident is just a small variation on every other incident, and all the reader can expect to witness - in May Sinclair's words - "is just life going on and on".
(Isherwood) * 'HOWIE THE ROOKIE' Mark O'Rowe's blood-and-guts-filled comic yarn, which features two baroque monologues climaxing in sudden, irresistible bursts of mayhem, tells a gangland story set in working-class Dublin.
The show is at its best toward the end, when everyone is onstage in a frenzy of social crises and the show has its slapstick climax in a sudden shift into violent slow-motion.
Family arguments and conferences, and interactions between the boys and their friends, are staged simply and straightforwardly, yet many of these scenes, pointed and touching from the start, take off in surprising directions and come to a climax with a sudden rush of hostility or hurt.
These silences are natural — K J, Jasper and Evan are all inward-looking souls who seem to see the rest of the world as from the other side of an invisible wall — but they take on greater weight and meaning as the play moves to its quiet climax, involving a sudden death that feels all the more devastating for the casual way Ms. Baker sidles up to the subject.
The closing scene - Tony sat in a diner with the surviving members of the Soprano brood - looked to be reaching a climax when all of a sudden the screen "smash-cut" to black.
The climax of the novel is sudden and flashed by so rapidly that I felt like everything was happening in fast forward; however, I think these scenes will translate really well to the big screen and will ultimately feel appropriately paced when in visual format.
