Shouldn't Love be on this list, even though it has context as a subset
of at least comedies and tragedies?

Leigh

On 23 Apr 2011 at 08:40 PM, Jochen Fromm related
> 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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