Although Mr Portillo has never embellished his original confession, he has woven this part of his biography into a tedious narrative of personal self-discovery.

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The art of storytelling gets reinvented for every technological revolution, and digital media has exploded with new modalities of narrative and post-narrative forms of self-expression.

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The ONS said changes to the guidance may have led to an increased number of narrative verdicts coded as intentional self-harm in 2011, and therefore could have resulted in an increase in the suicide rate.

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The silence of the desert has its uses for the mystic, but what she experienced as a writer was that it destroys not only the sense of self, but also the foundation of narrative art a sense of time and memory.

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Commander Shepard could recruit God him (or, in this case, possibly her) self, and it would not affect this ultimate narrative.

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Each chapter of the glossy, colourful tome starts with a brief, self-described rant from Mr Peters, before moving on to the main narrative (such as it is) which is flanked on every page by sidebars containing quotes or one-point observations.

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She will emerge from her self-imposed media exile, media trained, and ready for a new sympatico narrative.

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