A directive from Yuzhong County in the northwestern province of Gansu declared, for example: “Since the abrupt changes in Tunisia and Egypt, Western forces hostile to China have been itching to do something and do their utmost to stir up a fuss.”

It is the narrative which contains narrativity, and this narrativity will precisely include the means by which the reader is encouraged to a lesser or greater degree to actively construct the story […]

I just noticed... is little Nase gone? She vanished a little while ago. You mean the spell ran out. Yes. You'd have noticed if I'd unsummoned her prematurely.

Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.