Songs on the album range from homicide narratives ("Warning") to braggadocios battle raps ("The What," "Unbelievable").
And like an amusement-park attraction, they could well come with a list of warnings: May cause narrative whiplash.
The anti-trigger warning "coddled co-eds" narrative has a lot in common with the "false accusation" narrative used to derail discussions of on-campus rape.
It concludes: "Despite narrative verdicts warning of dangerous procedures and the proliferation of guidelines, lessons are not being learnt: people die in similar ways year on year".
"Utopia," his fictional travelogue about an island of plenty and equality, is told by a character whose name, Hythloday, yet another playful conjoining of Greek words, signifies something like "nonsense peddler". Although More comes across as being quite fond of his noplace, he occasionally interrupts the narrative by warning against the islanders' rejection of private property.
The editors theorized that a warning posted before disturbing narratives could allow readers to prepare for what might be an upsetting but, ultimately, necessary conversation.
So recognizable and absolute is a David Means story that it invokes the warning Mary Douglas gives about ring narratives in our time: "If a culture is... heavily against boundaries, rules and closures as such, the ring shape would seem too formal, artificial, mechanical.... Instead of being taken for granted as a normal thing, the very idea of closure is felt to be ambiguous.
Policymakers and school reformers — in the District and across the nation — chose to believe the "miracle" narrative and ignore warning signs that were there all along.
"Professors can also dissect a narrative's passage, warning their students which sections or volumes of a book possess triggering material and which are safer to read.
Regulation and active management of mobility by cities. "They arrived overnight, without warning". This was a common narrative, where hundreds of scooters might arrive in a city without prior notification or coordination with transportation officials.
The title might serve as a warning that there will be no narrative convergence; nothing, however, prepares the reader for the lack of narrative coherence.
