Time-Space and Story Curves
Paul Ricoeur Temps et récit I
Ce qui fait énigme, c'est la structure même d'une image qui vaut tantôt comme empreinte du passé, tantôt comme signe du futureTrace and sign take on some ample wings in the context of verbal constructions.
See Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
Text-time is thus inescapably linear, and therefore cannot correspond to the multilinearity of 'real' story-time.(2)
(2) One should note, however, two factors which tone down the irreversibility of text-time: (a) the fact of writing and hence the possibility of re-reading; (b) the existence of quasi-spatial patterns which establish supra-linear links, e.g. analogy.
And so for day 1840
27.12.2011
