What's the middle bit called?

[TheEndIsNigh]

If the prologue is a bit of the story you have at the start, and the epilogue is a bit of the story you have at the end...what do you call a similar bit of story you have in the middle?

Google gave me "interlude" which I don't think is right (I already have them), and an hilarious forum exchange in which someone asked the same question and the first response told them it was a ludicrous question, it didn't matter, and could they please step to the front of the class to introduce themselves! My ribs still hurt from laughing.

Anyway, be creative with your answers, have fun, gold stars to the best answers, and a spell facing the corner for anyone who strays off topic.

I think you're possibly looking at this too deeply.


The Prologue:

Is the bit of the book or story that the writer should never have written far less included, as in contains all the nonesense that is either irrelavent or couldn't be squeesed onto the main bit.

The Epilogue:

Is the bit that nobody reads because they've just waded through a 100+ pages of something that ended so badly it needs an Epilogue to explain what it was all about.


The bit in the middle:

Is called the story.

 

[Joshua Jones]

Not to add to the mad ursary in this thread but isn't the main part of any built up argument (or composition as it were) most usually called "the body"? As in "the body of evidence".

So... are you trying to say it should be called an incarnate intercourse?

 

[Mad Alice]

So... are you trying to say it should be called an incarnate intercourse?

That sounds like some sort of race involving a chili cook-off somehow. A chili con carne race course. Perhaps we could call it Zeno's Paradox Chili con carne Race course.