Tense will affect how it is read

To subvert myth -- the narrator realizes his life is connected with the larger floating stories and there wasn't even really a change that signals his realization.

Myth being told in a fated way -- Myths are accepted as real, or as real as anything else.

There really isn't intention in his moving; Waking up in different places without explanation of how he got there; There is potential for being moved magically but without explanation is confusing.

Narration being jagged and brain trauma -- not a lot of actual emotion and not a lot of contrast. The tone is lacking conceals the horror. Lean more into the physicality which is richer than "I knew suffering"

Incorporate present tense through all of the "present" narrative? Plane crash has a certain surrealness -- there is a flatness that works fine for folktale but outside of fairy tales there is a lack of tone and contrast.

Do we know even where the plane is going? Seems to be on a plane for the purpose to be on a plane?

Most of the tension is from the couple's storyline until the narrator fits in the story. The narrator doesn't really seem to deliberately do anything. A "lazy river" type of journey.

Question about what came before the journey? When did the memory loss begin? How to make the sudden or step-by-step rush-back of memory more clear?

"I remember" doesn't reveal until very late that this is the narrator's personal lived story

There are a LOT of characters?

confusion can be explained by the disorientation of the plane crash.

"I remember" help add to the recognition of the different modes of storytelling.

Tales: Separate origin stories connect together is good.

three lines three different way to interpret. to be anything to be anything other than XXX to be anything other (is this the same as to be anything else? )

Accessing memory but failing just like trying to get a glimpse through a curtained window. Lying motionless here and now? Or when every one was afraid? Is the terrible effort the effort to access memory?

Not just he could not, he could not get to

The woods as an action, like a quest where the speaker attempts and works towards a connection.

strange strange verb here; Lent to whom from the daughter?

First instance of using third person "Him"?

Again reference to a memory -- a past that is real but can't be touched

to spread or shake out from a furled state like a sail or a flag

Again reference to the past

Strong wind contrasts the stillness of the people. Just because there is movement of the wind does not mean it is not idle. Rather, it enhances it.

Liaison is not really a verb but still one can connect, one can make phonetic connection between words or social connection, often illicit, between peoples. What does this mean?

Such a strange remembrance of the past. "miserable" and "harm" is the result of "correction" or "destruction" of what used to be "delight".

alliteration

word play

Alliteration

Both as a verb as tomorrow will pardon (whom?) and as an expression of hesitation after a comma.

state of being reserved; strained with regard to speaking freely

Confusion over first and second person pronouns. Is the "you" towards the reader?