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Created: 2012-10-05 23:58 Updated: 2012-10-06 00:08 Notebook: Notebook Stack/Web History of AZ
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Okay, I'm getting more and more comfortable with this unreliable narrative. And there are many, many levels in which we can see unreliable narration from the very beginning that talks about his experience as a veteran. He's unreliably... how shall I say, inducted into the Army when he thought he was enlisting in the Navy. And then, you know, never given a chance to fight. He was, again, unreliably assigned to dump duty as opposed to combat. And, you know, he was unreliably the victim of a stroke. And which caused his own, I believe it's called the motor cortex to become unreliable. Giving him aphasia, the broken aphasia, of course, which he may or may not have been, which may or may not have healed essentially. So that's another aspect of it. I can pass a mariety, and this sounds like there's a lot of background. But anyway, his own description of his parents background is unreliable. One, because he really doesn't know it yet. And two, it's classic. It's going to be based on what we call the mythology of families and not of life. So that's distracting. So, you know, when he's trying to talk about his family's business, again, it's going to come. It's going to be delivered a little unreliably. And then finally, when he gets down to actually telling the reader how he loves to tell a story, again, what is that story that he loves to tell? Well, I love to tell stories. He's actually a song, well, not a song that may give you some, but a hymn based on a poem written by a woman who was recuperating or recovering from a disease in the 19th century. And the hope of salvation from Jesus and the Lord was the only thing that she had to hope for. The concept of an afterlife that we're taught in monotheistic religion is an unreliable narrative. So, how many different rabbit holes do you want to go down through? Go down in this story, but anyway, they're all unreliable. And so, that's, if you haven't figured out from the first chapter that this is not going to be your, you know, a story that you're going to understand in real time, in chronological time. You're only, it will be given to you a narrative time. And again, the narrative time will be just when Bill chopped up scrambled fades for a story. Adam will continue to attempt to explain it. And he will come, he will get side tracked into the other stories. And I want to limit it to three, basically his, being the superficial story. And, you know, Amina is being that kind of, as I say, middle layer story that bridges the unknown to him, the unknown story of his own parents. And again, he keeps saying parents, it's my parents, but don't mean that. I mean what Adam may refer to as his might have been parents. And again, he's under, and I may actually make the point or emphasize the fact that he's under the rather stupid and false assumption that he could have had a different father. And he can't appear. So, you know, he will, you know, once he realizes who Amina is searching for, he will try to explain that to her, and he will not only attempt to save Amina, and she may actually be able to tell him what's going on. And he may be the one who actually tells him that, you know, he is being fashioned, he is being put up at the decoy in case this operation goes wrong. Now, why would a human trafficking ring be interested in students at the TOEFL program? Well, we have to make sure that there is no real TOEFL program that they signed up online. And that's what else? No, we have to think about the many different ways in which someone can get sucked into these. And so that's where we've got to watch it. Perhaps maybe that night at 6.3, that's when they got caught up in them. You can see wrongfully invited to someone's house where they might get drugged, and maybe Adam saves them and takes them to the hospital. We'll see, we'll see if that part out.


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