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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What's the Difference Between a Novel and a Movie Script?
There are sort of six fundamental shapes, if you like. There's rags to riches once, a very simple basic o goes up throughout the book. Calf go o starts off, it starts off badly, and then it keeps going down. icarus rites a starts, things go really well, and then they go really bad. cinderella and edipus wrigtes o were two other stories we looked at. You can't get the final one, which i realize weer doing this because i was looking at alian and i was looking through the script, and ripley is a man in the whate might be the fourtht script version of that. Anyway.
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