janSIy:

so it seems Klingons think even more strongly
about them as being separate from the narrative itself

charghwI':

t’s a supportive add-on, not part of the
main thing divided into chapters. Does that help?

I still don't understand, and perhaps it's because I'm trying to find
a greek/english word for {taymey}.

In English, we have the phrases front matter and back matter (or end matter) that refer to the sections that come before and after the main body of the text, respectively. Front matter may consist of an introduction, a foreword, a preface, a title page, a table of contents, and so on. Back matter may include an afterword, an index, a bibliography, a glossary, charts and tables, and so on. The front matter and the back matter together are all of the taymeymey of a book.

Could we assume that a {taymey} is something broader that just a
chapter? That perhaps it could be many chapters taken as a whole, as
long as these chapters collectively were about the same subject?

No. Size and scope are not what define a taymey. It is about whether it is the main body of the text or another piece in support of the main body.

But if that's the case, then perhaps a {taymey} could be a number of
paragraphs within a chapter, provided that they dealt with a specific
subject, a subject different than that of the rest of the paragraphs
of that chapter.

No. Paragraphs in the main body of a text that are more specific than other paragraphs are still part of the main body, and so are not taymeymey.

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