One final way that narratives must define character bodies is according to the degree to which individuals are embodied. I have just suggested that character bodies must not only be sorted into semantic patterns, but must be defined in terms of how deeply individuated they are. The degree of embodiment within narrative character is in many ways a corollary to this issue, since it describes how closely we should associate characters with these bodies. The potential distance between body and character is an element of the interpretation of a narrative just like the potential distance between the viewpoint of a narrator and that of the author.