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Re:Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories by rchase on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:23AM (#25466783)
Maybe the 8th is an implied nested recursion. It's the story of Mr. Vonnegut telling the story of the other 7 shapes.
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Re:Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories by js8 on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:29AM (#25466835)
But his story has "New Testament" shape - he worked on his thesis, and then it was rejected by his fellow academics. Now, a successful author, he became vindicated by these popular articles.
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