"But also, it is only very happy and contented people who can bear to contemplate suffering as a form of entertainment. Ordinary people have enough suffering of their own to do, and want to think about something else in their leisure time. This is why it is so hard to write a bestseller; and why bestsellers almost never please the critics. The ( Read more... )

superversive is rereading Aristotle's poetics, with recourse to Greek words and their meanings, and applying it all to the problems of today's storyteller.

First chapter here.

Second chapter here..

This is the sort of stuff I love to dig into in a group setting.