things to think about, hein?" The spot of French jarred him out of it (a trick I often resorted ... of construction as the doors to them creaked open and there it was in full regal splendor declaiming ... and that, just when he thought he had me in his narrative clutches for the rest of the morning. ...

year of its construction, perhaps forty thousand laborers were working on the site; all, it seems, ... indeed its pace increases, and the quanti­ ties of stone shifted, the provisions and furnishings crafted ... Then-curiously-the work of the construction, the physical details of it, disappear from the text, as if the decree of ...

widely and often are crafted from non-dramatic literary modes. Adapt­ ing works of narrative fiction for ... the stage, it is suggested, is a matter of excavation, of editing, of removing everything that is not ... a play so that what's left, probably most of it dialogue, can be "bodied ...

its standard length of an hour and a half, its desire to narrate a plot, its stars, the construction ... desperation, the camera must wander around looking for something not wholly irrelevant to look at. It would be ... screen. Many films constructed around an arma­ ture of conversation need not be seen at all; one can ...

motives for telling the story be a part of it? I don't know. Maybe they can't. But if ... I am to get it told at all, apparently, I must also talk about my own why. A more experienced writer ... narrative craft, shall go ahead as I feel compelled to do, letting the motive-naming fall less on the ...