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The voice that knows how the story ends but tells it slow on purpose.

means The person or voice that tells a story, recounting events to an audience or reader.

from From Latin narrator, 'a teller,' from narrare, 'to relate or recount.' That verb traces back to gnarus, 'knowing' — a cousin of the same ancient root that gives us 'know' and 'gnosis.' So buried in the word is a quiet truth: to narrate is, first, to know — and only then to tell.

Unreliable kind
Some lie to you the entire book
Greek roots
From narrare, meaning to make known
Second person
Rarest mode, drags you in as you
Nature docs
Calm tone over animals eating each other
Omniscient power
Reads every mind, picks which to share
for instance

morgan freeman — narrator of the shawshank redemption and over 150 films since 1971

david attenborough — narrator of planet earth and life documentaries, 97 years old

werner herzog — narrator of grizzly man and dozens of his own documentaries since 1970

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