Very interesting. In a way, what you describe is the story-telling technique in media res - start in the middle of things - used by Homer and many after him, an

Very interesting. In a way, what you describe is the story-telling technique in media res - start in the middle of things - used by Homer and many after him, and probably a few before: Start with where they are now (e.g., in the coal mine), then go back to their backstory, how they got there, then forward to their future. It's a bit different for biography, but why not?