BryanMaloney
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Although I am just a petitioner, I do pay attention, and I've come to gather that the York workings are in a "non-linear" order. I recently came across the following:
(S. A. Sowayan. 1992. The Arabian Oral Historical Narrative: An Ethnographic and Linguistic Analysis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.)
a long narrative is a cluster of smaller narratives which are imbedded and interlinked with each other. The swarming of the various narratives to the narrator’s mind as he starts, and the disentanglement of the various episodes as they come in the way of one another and crowd in his breast... can be likened to the flocking of thirsty camels to the drinking-trough.... At times, stories come in the way of one another and the narrator may find himself compelled to suspend an ongoing story in the middle to tell a different one.... This is because narratives are plentiful and interconnected.
(S. A. Sowayan. 1992. The Arabian Oral Historical Narrative: An Ethnographic and Linguistic Analysis. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.)