Mrs. Wilsons True Tales Retold

(corresponding to “The Berry Girls....”) Once again, we are presented with a story that is told with presumptions and intimations that are beyond our aesthetic or our common experience, and so we may not understand what is being said. Once again, I have interjected clarifications to state some presumptions and intimations explicitly.There are always such presumptions and intimations in art. These are often derived from the norms of society or our accustomed conceptions of reality, which are so implicit or logical that we do not explain them. These are also sometimes technical conventions in the art. In film art, for example, the sequence of shots exploits implicit ideas of the storytelling. A cut to another scene is presumed to be simultaneous parallel action, if it is abrupt and cues the logic of the plot; but a slow dissolve from one to another scene, where another set of subtle intimations suggest to the viewer a significant change in time and place, makes for different logic—the flash-back. When cro