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[mathrobot]

"To turn experience into speech-that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it-is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking. It is therefore that, when i had cause to think

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[playgroundsknow]

is this a personal quote?

[mathrobot]

im sure its very personal to john barth.

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[playgroundsknow]

fucking smartest dick on the ethereal trail. very quotable.

[playgroundsknow]

Story-plots are triangular in at least two ways: The "curve" of dramatic action is classically a nonequilateral triangle, a b c, where ab represents the "rising action," or incremental complication of some conflict; b the climactic "epiphany" or reversal of fortune; and bc the denouement, or resolution of dramatic tension. But the dramatical conflict, sine qua non,itself most often involves a triangle of forces: not just x versus y (Jack v. Giant, Oedipus v. Fate, Hamlet v. Hamlet), but x versus y catalyzed and potentiated by some z (the magic beans, Tiresias the prophet, Gertrude Ophelia), as crucial to plot-combustion as is the third log in a fireplace to successful ignition of the other two.