Temporal Disjunction and Alternating Syntagma in "Petulia"

According to a naturalistic time continuum, it would run something like this: First there is the matter of the manipulation of chronological order. The author chose to break up the Oliver story "into a large number of small units or isolated motifs which are made to crop up at different points in the course of the fictive present." The omniscient camera, tool of the omniscient story teller, one time pulls back, and, like a voyeur, catches Petulia cradling David's head in her arms, peeks at them from behind the crystal bottles on the table.