On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 2:37 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
Wouldn't this make the reader "tired", reading the {net jalchugh} after each and every sentence ?
Probably. But if the story were short enough, or perhaps turned into a poem of some kind, the repeated *net jalchugh* could function as a sort of repeated motif. For instance, each part could be structured with some increasingly hopeful and elaborate wish, with the final line of each stanza as *net jalchugh jIQuch*. This would continually remind the reader that the things the narrator is hoping for are untrue, and hint at the narrator's unhappiness. By structuring the story or poem around the repeated *net jalchugh*, the phrase becomes a common thread through the story, holding it together and emphasizing the theme. Alternately, if your story is long enough, you could just drop the explicit counterfactual entirely. Even if the first sentence of your story is *wochqu'wI' jIH 'ej 'engmey Dung jem'IH vIDab, vaj jIQuch.*, they would probably know that you are not actually a giant living in a castle in the clouds. That's how fiction works, after all.