“He relies, as do the rest of us, on the logical effect of a cumulative progression of detail, so that his stories reach a climacteric point arrived at from the qualities inherent in the start of the account.”
The physiological stage menstruating women go through when approaching menopause, when, due to hormonal changes, they progress from their usual pattern of menstruation through a phase of atypical menstruation, and finally cease menstruating
