Setting, conflict, resolution

And it was true that Blair had not the faintest chance of succeeding but he was determined to give it a go anyhow. His mother had prepared him well for moments like this and so he was going to go for it, for all he was worth. It was at that exact moment of thought that Blair missed his footing on the tight rope and fell ground wards, no one will ever know the last thoughts that went through his mind, perhaps he wondered about the logic of nude tight-rope walking, perhaps he simply thought "bugger" but as this is a third person narrative, it will have to remain in the imagination of those who saw his pale body fall, floundering to the floor as his shadow expanded beneath him to land with a gut-wrenching crump. Yet even they have not been given thought as the narrative boundaries have been firmly established and so the reader, if there is one, will have to put the pieces together (of the final thought, not of Blair) but that's, I suppose, what Barthes meant when he claimed that the author, not Blair, is dead.