Narrative

The inability to conceive of a happy ending.

Sometimes I think that the whole reason I met him was to discover that his wife was studying Counseling Psychology, if indeed that is the name of something a person might actually learn, with the great-grand-niece of Frida Kahlo. In the narrative of desire, perhaps what matters is not intimacy but it's counterpart: a new thought. In this sense, the lover is a necessary force, but rarely it's limit. I said: "Maybe this is the reason we met." Thinking of the yellow table, the third eye, the monkey in her arms. Dominant. I begged for an introduction, forgetting for a moment who I was. To him. For her. A cunt. Do cunts get to meet Frida Kahlo? In the flesh? Greeley, Colorado is where the slaughterhouses are. I'd like to visit that university town.

by Bhanu: A Failed Novelist January 27, 2008

Narrative

If you don't like the narrative, you don't have to listen to, or read it. Just like before 2020, there was a statue for everybody, if you didn't like a statue of a Confederate soldier, you could visit a Martin Luther King statue instead.

People can choose what narrative they listen to, they always could.

by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020

Narrative

It's hard to get in there... You know? It takes some time.... Unless you're me. I'm SUPER good at that's shit! It's almost too easy.

Hym "You know how I know that that character is about me? The anime one? Not only did he express my exact position but they modeled him after the 'Bleach' character 'Kenpachi Zaraki'. And it's a reference to the comment I made about people giving me a blank expressionless stare as though 'they can see the effigy of my might looming behind me like Kenpachi Zaraki'. Isn't that wild!? I'm in that narrative y'all. Great job me!"

Iam "Wait... Does that make me the depressed kid?"

Hym "HA! Probably!"

by Hym Iam May 11, 2022

narrative hyperbole

Narrative hyperbole is when the narrator of a comic book says one thing while the action drawn on the pages clearly show something else. Sometimes, in the case of speech hyperbole, it is a character who says one thing, while the pages show differently. This does not mean the narrator or the character is always wrong. It only means that in the case of such conflict, the actual scenes overrule the narrator or character text.

An example of this would be the Ten-Eyed Man, who Batman and the narrator called "the most dangerous man alive", and who was actually a very lame and low-powered character.

by Unknow Man March 24, 2005

Narrative Arselicker

A person who arselicks the COVID media narrative because they think they'll be rewarded when the full dystopia is installed.

"Jimmy is such a narrative arselicker, he said if you go along with it on Twitter the government will treat you better."

by BABYEYES69 December 22, 2020

Narrative Ego

The part of the ego that assumes that the events of your life are pieces of an extended narrative, with you as the focal point. You may assume that true love is out there for you. Or that there's some sort of battle for justice you must fight. Or even just that it is your lot in life to spiral into a pit of hurt and despair. Anything motivated partially by some sort of narrative precedence is a case of narrative ego. Is probably brought about by watching too much television/reading too many novels.

"I believe that it is my job to right the wrongs that plague this city"
"You must have quite a narrative ego!"

by ade625 February 11, 2012

Narrative Plains

The different tellers that can exist in a story.

The two narrative plains in Huckleberry Finn are:

The omniscient, adult, experienced " puppet master" Mark Twain
The limited, naïve, in experienced perspective of 12 year old Huck.

by AXmanAxler March 11, 2011