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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
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:38:33 1985
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References: <3505@decwrl.UUCP> <2660@ihuxf.UUCP> <2294@uvacs.UUCP>
Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC
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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