Stories - 7 main types

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7 main types

The quest.

Voyage and return.

Rebirth.

Comedy.

Tragedy.

Overcoming the monster.

Rags to riches.

Silly

36 Plots

Polti, Georges. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. trans. Lucille Ray.

Polti claims to be trying to reconstruct the 36 plots that Goethe alleges someone named [Carlo] Gozzi came up with:

1. Supplication (in which the Supplicant must beg something from Power in authority)
2. Deliverance
3. Crime Pursued by Vengeance
4. Vengeance taken for kindred upon kindred
5. Pursuit
6. Disaster
7. Falling Prey to Cruelty of Misfortune
8. Revolt
9. Daring Enterprise
10. Abduction
11. The Enigma (temptation or a riddle)
12. Obtaining
13. Enmity of Kinsmen
14. Rivalry of Kinsmen
15. Murderous Adultery
16. Madness
17. Fatal Imprudence
18. Involuntary Crimes of Love (example: discovery that one has married one’s mother, sister, etc.)
19. Slaying of a Kinsman Unrecognized
20. Self-Sacrificing for an Ideal
21. Self-Sacrifice for Kindred
22. All Sacrificed for Passion
23. Necessity of Sacrificing Loved Ones
24. Rivalry of Superior and Inferior
25. Adultery
26. Crimes of Love
27. Discovery of the Dishonor of a Loved One
28. Obstacles to Love
29. An Enemy Loved
30. Ambition
31. Conflict with a God
32. Mistaken Jealousy
33. Erroneous Judgement
34. Remorse
35. Recovery of a Lost One
36. Loss of Loved Ones.

20 Plots

Tobias, Ronald B. 20 Master Plots. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1993. (ISBN 0-89879-595-8)

1. Quest
2. Adventure
3. Pursuit
4. Rescue
5. Escape
6. Revenge
7. The Riddle
8. Rivalry
9. Underdog
10. Temptation
11. Metamorphosis
12. Transformation
13. Maturation
14. Love
15. Forbidden Love
16. Sacrifice
17. Discovery
18. Wretched Excess
19. Ascension
20. Descension.

St Pancras & Islington Cemetery

In 1852 the Metropolitan Burial Act allowed public money to be spent on providing cemeteries, and St Pancras Cemetery was the first result of this. Designed by the firm of Barnett & Birch, it opened in 1854 on 88 acres of Horse Shoe Farm on Finchley Common. In 1877 it added another 94 acres and became the St Pancras & Islington Cemetery – the largest cemetery in London.

Its finest feature is usually reckoned to be the mausoleum in the form of an Ionic temple erected for the millionaire German industrial chemist Ludwig Mond (1839–1909). His collection of early Italian paintings is now in the National Gallery.

But there are also quirkier pleasures to be had. The splendid statue of the road-sweeper and original pearly king Henry Croft (d. 1930) was too often wrecked by vandals and has now been replaced by something simpler, and the stone balloon of the aeronaut Percival Spencer (1864–1913) is awaiting replacement; but a kilted Scotsman, Alexander Lamond ('My Alick', d. 1926), remains (though it does not answer the perennial Celtic sartorial question), as does the parachuting figure on the memorial to the 'famous Lyceum clown' Harry Gardner (1800–51) – though the parachute is not his. Now submerged by undergrowth is the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown (1821–93).

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Rupert Brooke

Aldous Huxley

Described his aim as a novelist as being 'to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay' - 'novel of ideas'

Died same day as JFK. as did C. S. Lewis. Huxley's ashes were interred in the family grave at the Watts Cemetery, home of the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton near Guildford.

Grandfather: Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and "Darwin's Bulldog"
Brother: Julian Huxley outstanding biologist - involved in eugenics

studied English literature at Balliol
taught French for a year at Eton where Eric Blair (George Orwell) was among his pupils [1984/BNW] On 21 October 1949 Huxley wrote to Orwell abt Nineteen Eighty-Four, congratulating him on "how fine and how profoundly important the book is."
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience."

worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically-advanced Brunner and [Mustapha] Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, part of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)

During World War I, Huxley spent much of his time at Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, working as a farm labourer. Here he met D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell and Clive Bell.
lived in Italy part of the time in the 1920s, where Huxley would visit his friend D. H. Lawrence. Following Lawrence's death in 1930, he edited his letters (1933).
In 1937, Huxley moved to Hollywood - met Christopher Isherwood, Anita Loos, Ray Bradbury.

Screenwriting: Madame Curie (1943), Pride and Prejudice (1940), Jane Eyre (1944),Alice in Wonderland (1951)

In October 1930, the occultist Aleister Crowley dined with Huxley in Berlin, and to this day rumours persist that Crowley introduced Huxley to peyote on that occasion.
famously took 100 micrograms of LSD as he lay dying
The Doors of Perception (the title deriving from some lines in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake) inspired the name of the band The Doors. Huxley also appears on the sleeve of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Music at Night, 1931

In Brave New World Revisited, he concluded that the world was becoming like Brave New World much faster than he originally thought.
When Brave New World was released, B. Russell thought that Huxley's book was based on his book The Scientific Outlook that had been released the previous year.
Brave New World's plot ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We
inspired by the H. G. Wells' utopian novel Men Like Gods. Wells' optimistic vision of the future gave Huxley the idea to parody the novel

Brave New World written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book)

"For the Slump brought even more disillusionment than the War. A new bitterness, and a new bewilderment, ran through all social life, and was reflected in all literature and art. It was contemptuous, not only of the old Capitalism, but of the old Socialism."

Public Art

The Naked Lady, Finchley - Deliverance by Emile Guillaume (French)
to celebrate victory at 1st Battle of Marne 1914, and 2nd battle in 1918
unveiled 1927 by Lloyd George
bought by Lord Rothermere (owner Daily Mail) at Paris Salon in 1920 - donated to Borough of Finchley 1927

Top image courtesy of Canonsnapper

Music

"Gee What A Boy" by The Joytones
Bat For Lashes album ‘Two Suns’ (released 6th April 2009)

Politics

[this photo published just after the 45th anniversary of JFK's death, yesterday - Martin Luther King's speech was in August 1963]

The capacity of a society to improve and reinvigorate itself (election of Obama X.08)


Has anyone here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
You know, he freed a lot of people
but it seems the good die young, yeah.
I just looked around and he was gone.

Oh yeah

Has anyone here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people
but it seems the good die young, yeah.
I just looked around and he was gone.