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kleinbl00  ·  3682 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in His Rejected Master's Thesis

It was probably rejected because he was just riffing on Polti.





camarillobrillo  ·  3682 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of Carlo Gozzi, who also identified 36 situations.

Neat. So it goes. I wonder who influenced Gozzi, et al.

kleinbl00  ·  3682 days ago  ·  link  ·  
camarillobrillo  ·  3682 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ha. Yeah that'd be a good place to start.