Memory Book/Fractal Confusion (Kevin Breeman): Difference between revisions

no edit summary
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 48: Line 48:
This involves making use of the narrative voice to add a bit of effect to a post.  For example, consider the following piece of text:
This involves making use of the narrative voice to add a bit of effect to a post.  For example, consider the following piece of text:


{{Quote|The chair under him lurched a few centimetres but his body felt stationary and motionless.  It wasn't that the physics on the bridge were in some way violated so much as that his brain, in conforming with the laws dictating the physics of this region of space, did its feeble best to maintain conscious experience with the disjointed information.  Where parts of his sensory system were able to register, small temporal fluctuations in other portions of his brain were causing reality's coherence to diminish a bit.  Of course Kevin was not able to recognize this at the time, and so I must clarify the matter as his narrator in order that this narrative might maintain the coherence which its subject lacked in experience.|Breeman, while entering the way corridor at Bull's Run}}
<blockquote>The chair under him lurched a few centimetres but his body felt stationary and motionless.  It wasn't that the physics on the bridge were in some way violated so much as that his brain, in conforming with the laws dictating the physics of this region of space, did its feeble best to maintain conscious experience with the disjointed information.  Where parts of his sensory system were able to register, small temporal fluctuations in other portions of his brain were causing reality's coherence to diminish a bit.  Of course Kevin was not able to recognize this at the time, and so I must clarify the matter as his narrator in order that this narrative might maintain the coherence which its subject lacked in experience.</blockquote>
Here, the narrative voice acts as a meta-character, mentioning that he/she/it must clarify a few things for the reader since Breeman himself is unable to fully recognize what he is experiencing.
Here, the narrative voice acts as a meta-character, mentioning that he/she/it must clarify a few things for the reader since Breeman himself is unable to fully recognize what he is experiencing.


[[Category:Memory Books]]
[[Category:Memory Books]]
1,352

edits