the primacy of plot in modern Western thought about How Stories Work (and I mean modern in the most recent possible sense: the older Disney films don’t suffer from this relentless drive to advance the plot all the time. Sometimes they stop dead so you can admire the beautifully animated cuckoo clocks)
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I always think of Le Guin's essay taking off from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Brown. Especially in genre, so many books are so plot-driven and it feels very mechanical after a while. I'm there for the people.
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Date: 2019-08-25 08:40 pm (UTC)YESSSSSSSSS THANK YOU
I always think of Le Guin's essay taking off from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Brown. Especially in genre, so many books are so plot-driven and it feels very mechanical after a while. I'm there for the people.