Plot
The bulk of the story is an account of the first murder in the history of the universe, before even Cain and Abel, recounted in first-person hardboiled detective fiction style by Raguel, the angel who investigated it. In a frame narrative, the angel is shown to be telling the story to a young man in 20th-century Los Angeles, for reasons which escape the young man but which gradually become clear to the reader as the story progresses.
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Famous quotes containing the word plot:
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
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““The plot thickens,” he said, as I entered.”
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