Case #3 Belt Buckle

The cowboy country music used throughout the story when talking about Hans Jordi marked me a lot as it reminds me of Western Cowboy movies I used to love as a kid. I could picture Hans walking into a bar with his gun on his belt and the belt buckle all shinny. When Hans intern Sadat mentioned seeing him for the first time in civilian clothes, the strumming country music guitar made this image in my head even stronger(16:28).
 After getting information about Hans from the artist, the conversation drifted into teaching the storyteller how to see and paint the horizon (12:12). This is obviously a tangent from the story but, it is a very useful deviation as it adds a pause into the story, giving the listener a break before getting back to the story. A break such as this one is important for the listener to recapitulate and think, especially in a mystery story case like this one. The listener will loose this opportunity if the tangent is removed.

When jimmy Turk explained how he found the belt buckle, at some point (32:37), he started to talking about his back flip and jogging stories that lead him to have couple stitches on his chin. The storyteller spend some time investigating that stitches story which seems to be a common thing in Jimmy's family. This is also clearly a tangent from the story. however, the storyteller interestingly linked jimmy's family stitches story to the buckle when she wondered about what it was with this belt buckle with fate, adding more mystery to the story. Removing this tangent may decrease the level of mystery of the story.