03-29-2022, 04:52 AM
googling, i found this gem:
There are only two plots in all of literature:
1) A person goes on a journey.
2) A stranger comes to town.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/06/two-plots/
Further exposited as (by a female writer, later on):
“John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature: You go on a journey, or the stranger comes to town. Since women, for so many years, were denied the journey, we were left with only one plot in our lives — to await the stranger.” Always, the stranger is a man.
And that's true, if you look at the plot points in Wuthering Heights - the return of Heathcliff, or....well, I haven't read that many women writers
Excepting Agatha Christie. And her murder mysteries are all about a mysterious culprit who came into the library at half past six on a Wednesday evening as Lord Rathbone was opening his letters with a pen knife, aren't they?
Speaking of which, it's a tragedy that the class system no longer exists. An entire culture lost to the talentless nasal whining of working class plebs calling themselves The Beatles.
There are only two plots in all of literature:
1) A person goes on a journey.
2) A stranger comes to town.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/06/two-plots/
Further exposited as (by a female writer, later on):
“John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature: You go on a journey, or the stranger comes to town. Since women, for so many years, were denied the journey, we were left with only one plot in our lives — to await the stranger.” Always, the stranger is a man.
And that's true, if you look at the plot points in Wuthering Heights - the return of Heathcliff, or....well, I haven't read that many women writers
Excepting Agatha Christie. And her murder mysteries are all about a mysterious culprit who came into the library at half past six on a Wednesday evening as Lord Rathbone was opening his letters with a pen knife, aren't they?
Speaking of which, it's a tragedy that the class system no longer exists. An entire culture lost to the talentless nasal whining of working class plebs calling themselves The Beatles.