A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

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He felt there may be even more problems if we didn't play, and you could not argue with that advice or logic if that was what he felt, no matter how irrelevant you regarded a football match as being after lives were lost.

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Currently job applicants are obliged to disclose all criminal convictions, no matter how old or irrelevant.

BBC: Call for criminal records law change

Now it's irrelevant how excited or despairing other investors are about Coke.

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