{"id":79,"date":"2008-08-01T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T00:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2022-02-19T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:57:10","slug":"commentary-prologue-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/commentary-prologue-reprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Prologue (Reprise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a little epilogue to my tale of sadness. \u00a0Originally I used the typical Prologue\/Epilogue pairing. \u00a0Later I changed them both to Prologue to emphasize that they were sort of the same chapter as told before and after the events of the book. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t really like losing the song titles as chapter titles theme (though there are numerous songs with titles of &#8220;Prologue&#8221; and &#8220;Epilogue&#8221;), but compromised with the parenthetical &#8220;reprise&#8221; at the end. \u00a0Sometimes I think &#8220;Encore&#8221; would have been better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Other tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wrote this chapter out of sequence from the rest, probably just before starting the hospital chapters.<\/li>\n<li>According to the old man, the sister never married the &#8220;first&#8221; time around. \u00a0So this new history isn&#8217;t actually setting everything back to how it originally was, but instead a third variation.<\/li>\n<li>Note that her husband doesn&#8217;t have a name, whereas previously Nelson was the only named character in the entire book. \u00a0Note also that in the previous chapter the narrator tells us he&#8217;s naming Nelson because &#8220;hate needs a name.&#8221; \u00a0Does this mean that she has a different husband, or that her husband is still Nelson but he&#8217;s no longer hated?<\/li>\n<li>This coda is intentionally ambiguous, and in this final commentary post I&#8217;m being intentionally coy. \u00a0Without giving too much of my intent away I&#8217;ll just say this: \u00a0I definitely know how the story ends, but I don&#8217;t know if this is actually the end of the story or not since there might be a sequel. \u00a0Until that&#8217;s decided, either interpretation above is valid. \u00a0(Ask me next February 29th and I might change my answer.)<\/li>\n<li>There is only one musical reference in this short chapter, hinting at the fact that music may not be a big part of the narrator&#8217;s life this time around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Timely Persuasion - Prologue (Reprise)\" href=\"http:\/\/reader.timelypersuasion.com\/Reprise.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Prologue (Reprise) Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Buy Timely Persuasion for just $15!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/139239\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy the Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a little epilogue to my tale of sadness. \u00a0Originally I used the typical Prologue\/Epilogue pairing. \u00a0Later I changed them both to Prologue to emphasize that they were sort of the same chapter as told before and after the events of the book. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t really like losing the song titles as chapter titles theme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-1h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2044,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/2020-hindsight-commentary-25-minutes-to-go-across-26-winters-prologue-reprise\/","url_meta":{"origin":79,"position":0},"title":"2020 Hindsight Commentary: 25 Minutes To Go, Across Twenty-Six Winters, Prologue (Reprise)","author":"LBDG","date":"October 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm revisiting Timely Persuasion 12 years after releasing it \/ 17 years after writing it \/ 6000+ days since I jokingly told Jon Mack \"maybe I'll write a book\"\u009d with a new round of fresh eyed commentary. 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