I’ve been reading "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies." In the coming days, I’ll make several posts about it and post my notes, but today, I want to look at how masterfully it complicates narrative technique. Doing so requires me to discuss diegetic protocols—where diegesis, simply put, refers to levels of narrative. Here are the terms as I will be using them: Diegetic: The primary narrative level where the story unfolds. Intradiegetic: Events and characters operating