Third-person sections in RttW

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 03 Apr 2001, 07:49 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Third-person sections in RttW
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:49:45
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> > They must have decided to model the third book on the first one, which
> > switches back and forth from present to past.  Book two has some
> > flashbacks, but book three, as the Narrator wrote it, has almost none.
So
> > they may have written the Whorl stuff the way they did to make book
three
> > better match the other two.

> This would make perfect sense if the editors were writing a novel.  But,
at
> the risk of becoming tedious, they're not.

Also, at the risk of being obvious, the structure of Book Three does
not significantly match that of Book One -- in RttW, the flashbacks are
separated from the "present" narrative by chapter breaks; in OBW, they
are integrated and occasionally difficult to separate from them.

--Blattid

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