The narrative can sometimes seem like a 15-minute dead spot in the "Ring" cycle.
Too often, his narrative seems to meander simply for the charm of its meandering.
Gébler does it with a focus so strong that the narrative seems at times to be without affect, leaving the reader to provide it.
In the final section of the novel, two narratives seem to run alongside one another, alternating every few paragraphs.
The narrative of the book seems to be that Obama pushed the military for a plan to leave Afghanistan, and just didn't get one.
Meanwhile, his underlying economic narrative, that the present Government is cutting too far, too fast, doesn't seem to have changed at all.
Nonetheless, to your correspondent, the narrative seems to exist more in the realm of scoundrels than spooks.
At the same time, the pure narrative seems like a mere prelude.
Even though the play has had prior productions, the narrative still seems to be evolving.
But in the end he is vindicated, for the poem skirts more depths than its nonchalant narrative seems to invite.