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Quote from: piecewise on February 23, 2015, 08:30:05 pm

Quote from: Nikitian on February 23, 2015, 03:24:26 pm

I just found myself using the verb 'to piecewise' to describe long-term foreshadowing, hinting and generally fucking with the reader mostly without him noticing it in the first place (or not grasping it entirely until too late). Yay!

This pleases me. What was the context?

Oh, there was this one unconnected description of something supposedly half-metaphorical; yet, from a scant few details I know about a much later book of the same author in the same setting (which, needless to say, was written and published much, much later, and a contemporary reader wouldn't have any of that knowledge), that off-handed sentence might be a quite literal description of a scene in that later book.
Thus I responded to this as

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... I have a diiistinct feeling the author might have been piecewising something ~_~