03-29-2022, 05:58 AM
(03-29-2022, 04:52 AM)busker Wrote: googling, i found this gem:I've read a similar quote from Stephen King. I can't find the exact quote at the moment but it goes to the effect of " I don't need to begin with a story. I just put two dissimilar people in the same room and watch what happens."
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.