IVIV (1) "She came along the alley and up the back steps ..."

[John Carvill]

> Well, more like a category unto its own, is what I was trying to say.

Ah, right, yes. In some respects, IV fits the 'chartacter intro'
category, in some ways the 'abstract' one.


> IV breaks with this pattern in the way Sasha almost sidles into the frame,
> in a sentence which is at once intimate ("she" and "the way she always used
> to") and external to Doc and his apartment (seeing her moving along the
> alley). The intimacy seems to indicate that the perspective is tinted by
> Doc, whereas the description of her in the alley would indicate that it is
> completely outside of him (unless Doc infers that she must have moved along
> the alley in order to arrive the way she does, by the back steps). Inside
> is outside, or vice versa.

Yes, the key word I suppose is 'came'. Maybe an omniscient narrator
would say she 'went' or 'walked' up, but here we have a narrator that
(presumably) isn't Doc, but who is looking on Shasta from Doc's angle,
watching her approach.

Unless Doc happened to be standing at his back door at the time, so
was able to watch her coming up the alley and back steps.

We over-analysing here? Nah.

>
> Like Pudding always sez: "it's changing out from under me. Oh, dodgy --
> very dodgy."
>

Heh. Dodgier and dodgier.

Cheers
J