MDMD(11): Narrative Lengths

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Tue Nov 20 00:17:54 CST 2001


Dave Monroe wrote:

>
>  In the meantime, how IS Mason avoiding
> "betraying" Rebekah?  "Betraying" her in what sense, exactly?
> Approximately?  Hypothetically, even?  Somebody, let me know ...
>

Describing how a couple met (cutely here as is so often the case) is about
biggest narrative cliche going and it goes here to extra great lengths. Likely
to tell nothing of the real forces that brought the two lives together.
Rebekah's darker side wherein betrayal might be a danger  starts to be seen on
p. 174. Probably later in the book also but I don't remember specifically.

        P.






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