Spector is a drily witty narrator, and has astonishing stories, with images to back them up.
For the last word on serial killers, leave it to the witty narrator of Jeff Lindsay's ghoulish first novel, DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER (Doubleday, $22.95).
He's the wise, witty narrator, the tragic victim of progress and racial oppression, who shapes the character and demeanour of the naive, upright Reid and, ultimately, turns him into an avenger.
Yet the identities of her worldly and witty narrators can be as elusive as Himalayan mists.
"She was witty", the narrator's sister says in Mama.
It usually involves a witty, stumbling narrator simultaneously charmed and bemused by the foreign nation he encounters.
An early decision was taken not to try to create a film equivalent for the poem's witty and discursive narrator.
Especially the problem that a witty and wise narrator fails to work out the obvious fact that time is moving backwards, and so continues expressing confusion until the end.
It's still remarkable for the close, truthful feel of the characterisation and the humane treatment of the Greasers, the gang from the wrong side of the tracks; the wry, witty, put-upon narrator, Ponyboy, is a particular triumph.
She undergoes a transformation from a nice girl with a pretty face to an intellectually shrewd, possibly "near-criminal mastermind," the planner and executor of elaborate schemes that have both students and faculty following her lead, all conveyed by way of a witty third-person narrator, whose dispassionate tone gives this novel its delicious, deadpan sense of humor.
Dom Ruggiero, the director, guides the highly talented cast with punch and confidence, pulling out all the stops for rousing musical numbers but letting the quieter parts — the show starts in pitch-blackness, with only the narrator's witty monologue piercing the dark — develop fully, too.
