Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: To Reign in Hell ("The Idiot Plot" ???!!!) Message-ID: <352@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:38:33 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.352 Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:38:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:12:09 EDT References: <3505@decwrl.UUCP> <2660@ihuxf.UUCP> <2294@uvacs.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 16 Summary: In article <2294@uvacs.UUCP> rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) writes: > Melodrama means your characters are prey to forces beyond their control. In >this myth, even the gods are caught in the web of their own machinations. Nope. Melodrama: a drama with exaggerated conflicts and emotions, stereotyped characters, etc. Perhaps you're thinking instead of classic tragedy in which a character's tragic flaw and the workings of fate conspire to do him in? >... fantasy isn't your can of worms. Back to >Sidney Sheldon with you. God, you really want to hurt the guy, don't you? :-) -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly