We are born, we struggle through life, we die. Are all our lives the same? Is the richness of experience not in the details?
The blues are defined by a single 12-bar pattern. Does that make all blues music the same? On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Can everything ever written boiled down to a few fundamental stories? > Christopher Booker argues in his book > "Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories " > that everything can be classified by just seven plots: > > 1. Overcoming the monster > 2. Rags to riches > 3. A journey - the quest > 4. A journey - the voyage and return > 5. Comedies > 6. Tragedies > 7. Rebirth > Or is there just one: "there once was a problem, and it got resolved" which > includes all detective and adventure stories - "there once was something to > find out, and someone did it". What do you think? Can life really be > distilled to a few basic stories? > > -J. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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