His goal: to unlock antiquity's most intricate, difficult narrative for a modern audience.

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Through a series of narrative jumps, the oblique dialogue teases the audience as Karam tries to capture both the process of suffering and the comedy of how we cope with it.

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Disney, on the other hand, begins with a friendly greeting, but as he becomes ever more obsessed with his control of the narrative, he becomes less open with the audience, less appealing.

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Look, one of the reasons I created the whole Economic Revolution thing here on Forbes was to try to knit together an understandable narrative about the future economy that a broader audience could read, digest, and understand without an advanced degree in the subject.

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"There's definitely an art to be able to write a song that on one level is a pop song and one that also has to tell a story and keep an audience engaged in terms of a larger narrative arc, " he says.

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Blume and her son assured the audience that changes were made to preserve the film's narrative flow, which can be challenging in adapting a first-person novel.

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The narrative drive of their lyrics and the raw heft of their voices will reach an audience far beyond the smalltown Texas they write about.

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