Narrative
The narrative setting takes place during the third year of Cyrus king of Persia on the twenty-fourth day of the first month. The prophet Daniel was on the banks of the Tigris River. When he looked up, he saw the figure of a man standing before him dressed in white linen. Although his companions fled in terror, they saw nothing. Daniel faints and has a dream where the angel Gabriel speaks of conflicts between the King of North and King of the South.
Read more about this topic: Daniel 11
Famous quotes containing the word narrative:
“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“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.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.”
—Robert Coover (b. 1932)