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However, in the episodic sequence, each one of the images consituting the series appears distinctly as the symbolic summary of one stage in the fairly long evolution condensed by the total sequence. In the ordinary sequence, each one of the units in the narrative simply presents one of the unskipped moments of the action. Consequently, in the first case each image stands for more than itself and is perceived as being taken from a group of other possible images representing a single phase of a progression (which, in relation to the integrality of the syntagma, does not prevent each of the allusions from having its own location along the axis of time). But in the ordinary sequence each image represents only what it shows. (Metz, pp. 131-2.)
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