diegesis
[NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. — to narrate; dia` through + ? to lead.]
A narrative or history; a recital or relation.
The world in which the narrative is set. In other words, the world fictional characters inhabit.
diegetic space
The physical world in which the narrative action of the television program takes place.
diegetic sound
Dialogue, music and sound effects that occur in the diegetic space of the television program. I.e., sound that is part of the characters' world.
I can, of course, see how this is applicable in Relativity explanations. Thanks Jerry.
-- Crush
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Friedman [mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 5:22 PM
To: urth at urth.net
Subject: RE: (urth) The Blushas Challenge: Round Two
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--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <ddanehy at siebel.com> wrote:
Jerry F wrote...
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[From]
the point of view of the fictional universe (the deictic
point of view?),
(OK, I really do not understand this use of the word "deictic.")
My mistake. "Diegetic". There, that should be much clearer. :-)
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there are powers above the stage, and they
may easily have had some reason for wanting to arrange a
meeting--such as to have Severian resurrect Silk.
They may indeed, but even this is slightly askew to the
question ... I am asking the pro-Blushas faction to
describe some mechanism, internal to the fictive universe,
consistent with the text and ideally with some modicum of
textual support, which simplifies a reading of the "astral
travel" segments of the text at least as much as they are
complicated by accepting the Blue = Ushas theory in the
first place -- keeping in mind that one of the more
significant complexities so introduced is astral time
travel itself; let the Bleen system be 800LY or so from
Urth and we can just assume that the timelines are
simultaneous (whatever that means in a universe which
conforms to Einstein, Lorenz-FitzGerald, etc.)
"Simplifies". I can't help with that.
Jerry Friedman