 X— makes frequent reference to the "story-mongers" and "meaning-mongers", and is constantly trying to figure out whether trivial matters that happen qualify as "incidents" or "events" or are otherwise "part of the story".Brodsky, on the copyright page, acknowledges Noël Burch "Theory of Film Practice" (1973), translated from "Praxis du cinema" (1969), for an idea that he explores in the novel.Brodsky does not name the idea, but certain unusual prose stylings in "Dyad" can be interpreted as film-inspired.