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> title talks about "8 shapes" > graphic shows only 7 distict shapes (new testament and cinderella are identical) Am I missing something or is this a case of
by isoprophlex 4y ago
> title talks about "8 shapes"
> graphic shows only 7 distict shapes (new testament and cinderella are identical)
Am I missing something or is this a case of sloppy editing?
- goto11 4y agoVonnegut is not saying there are only 8 possible shapes, he is just graphing some examples.
- bmitc 4y agoThis is correct. His actual thesis has 28 example story shapes.
- xiande04 4y agoI thought the same. Sloppy editing. If you watch the included video, the graph that Vonnegut draws for Cinderella starts below the B/E axis, not above like the New Testament.
- isoprophlex 4y agoAh that makes sense wrt the story arc for cinderella. Thanks. I instinctively ignore everything that looks like a video when reading articles.
- soperj 4y agoin this case it's the best part of the article, they also unfortunately cut the video.
- willidiots 4y agoI suspect the author wanted you to notice the similarity between 7 and 8 when you got to them, not at the beginning of the article.
- slowmovintarget 4y agoHamlet would graph as a straight line along the Beginning-Entropy axis.