These memories are clearly driven by a largely uncontrollable, bodily series of desires and obsessions. The duality is likewise remarked byQuentin's father:“Father said that constant speculation regarding theposition of mechanical hands on an arbitrary dial which is a symptom of mind-function. Excrement Father said like sweating”(94). Here external regulation produces something bodily that seems other than it-an abject excremen t, to use Kristeva's term.21 We can say, likewise, that the inter nal time consciousness is produced as a kind of bodily excess that worksagainst but is also deeply involved with the overall time of the external plot. Just as we have seen in theories of plot by Frye and Brooks, both sides of this narrative equation are imagined in bodily terms.