Those seven themes are universal. But the deliciousness is in the
details. Furthermore, in literature, those themes intertwine.
Consider Der Ring de Niebelungen. Nearly all those themes are present
in the work in its entirety.
On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Dale Schumacher wrote:
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.
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If She Only Had One Minute
What would she put in it?
She wouldn't put
she thinks; she would take,
suck it up
like a deep lake
Kay Ryan
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