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Thursday, October 06, 2016

Fun with embalming fluid — a story from 1919

Not likely, but this should have been the origin of the phrase "stiff drink."

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Kurt Vonnegut's graphs of the world's most popular stories

By Jack Brummet, American Lit Ed.

Kurt Vonnegut once said: “The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper, and that the shape of a given society’s stories is at least as interesting as the shape of its pots or spearheads,” This is similar to The Motif-Index and the Tale Type Index Click here to read a fascinating article on Vonnegut's story graphs.

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