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Originally Posted by Kasper Hviid
Right! Okay ... so it's a bit of a lull before the storm, where the author construct a tower one brick at a time, with the implicit promise that the reader is going to see it getting smashed to pieces.
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More of a setting of the stage with a promise of things to come. Like in
Treasure Island for example when Jim Hawkins starts to talk of the "captain" who takes up residence at his families inn of The Admiral Benbow. You just know something is going to happen that isn't ordinary. Or like in the movie of
The Invisible Man when a stranger who is wrapped up in bandages makes his appearance. You ask yourself who is he? Why is he wrapped up in those bandages? etc. We want to know more of what is up and read, or watch further.