Adding Depth through a Grammar of Passages: A Mixed Sequence

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Source: Noden, Image Grammar, page 117-118


"Then Jody stood and watched the pony, and he saw things he had never notices about any other horse, the sleek, sliding flank muscles and the cords of the buttocks, which flexed like a closing fist, and the shine the sun put on the red coat. Having seen horses all his life, Jody had never looked at them very closely before. But now he noticed the moving ears which gave expression and even inflection of expression to the face. The pony talked with his ears. You could tell exactly how he felt about everything by the way his ears pointed. Sometimes they were stiff and uptight and sometimes lax and sagging. They went back when he was angry of fearful, and forward when he was anxious and curious and pleased; and their exact position indicated with emotion he had. Steinbeck, The Red Pony, 1973, 25.

Noden sets the levels like this:

Level 1: Then Jody stood and watched the pony, and he saw things he had never noticed about any other horse.
            Level 2: the sleek, sliding flank muscles and the cords of the buttocks, which flexed like a closing fist, and the shine the sun put on the red coat.
Level 1: Having seen horses all his life, Jody had never looked at them very closely before.
            Level 2: But now he noticed the moving ears which gave expression and even inflection of                 expression to the face.
            Level 2: The pony talked with his ears.
            Level 2: You could tell exactly how he felt about everything by the way his ears pointed.
                         Level 3: Sometimes they were stiff and uptight and sometimes lax and sagging.
                         Level 3: They went back when he was angry or fearful, and forward when he was                                anxious and curious and pleased; and their exact position indicated which emotion he                          had.

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