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4dc785a
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Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
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palahniuk
narrator
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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a2ae3b4
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I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember.
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the-waves
narrator
personal
virginia-woolf
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Virginia Woolf |
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a3a8fb4
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"Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, the universal narrator's voice you may well be hearing right now. Whose voice *is* it you're hearing? It's not your own, is it? I didn't think so. It never is. So I posed the question out loud..." "...When you read a book, whose voice is it you hear inside your head?"
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generation-a
narrator
universal
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Douglas Coupland |
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d71b68e
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"It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife."
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opening
narrator
the-black-prince
iris-murdoch
dramatic
narrative
meta
storytelling
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Iris Murdoch |
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2a6306c
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Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.
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narrator
the-black-prince
iris-murdoch
self-deprecating
narrative
meta
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Iris Murdoch |
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99bb922
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It was for me a moment of great peace. I did not know then that it was the last, the very last moment of peace, the end of the old innocent world, the final moment before I was plunged into the nightmare of which these ensuing pages tell the story.
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narrator
iris-murdoch
peace
nightmare
foreshadowing
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Iris Murdoch |