Train of Thought
Kylie sings
“Locomotion”
“Oh, my Lolita. I have only words
to play with!” (Nabokov, Lolita)
“This is the best toy train set
a boy ever had!”
(Orson Welles, after first touring
RKO Studios, quoted in Halliwell)
“As the quotes above by Nabokov and Welles suggest, we need to be able to account for the specific functions available to narrative in each medium, for the specific elements that empirical creators will ‘play with’ in crafting their narratives.”