Any mention of an event that is not explicitly narrated.
For example: “We talked and talked and it was witty and biting, yet recounting it in written form would never give justice to the actual experience.”
Any event within a logical sequence that goes unmentioned because of a natural call for rhythm, characterization, suspense, etc.
Disnaratted.
Any events that do not happen within the narrative proper but could have and are referred to in a negative or hypothetical mode in the text.
Unrealized events. The parralelism between the unrealized and the realized. Wishes, intents, and obligations. They do not merely reflect actual events but also delineate virtual ones.
Alethic expressions of presumed impossibility or unrealized possibility. Deontic expressions of observed prohibition, epistemic expressions of ignorance, ontologic expressions of nonexistence, purely imagined worlds, desired worlds, intended worlds, unfulfilled expectations, unwarranted beliefs, failed attemps, crushed hopes, erroneous suppositions, false calculations.
“His expectations turn out to be foolish” (cue face of surprise)
