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The Marienbad Muser Story Teller

As we have already said in connexion with PoltiPlot, if a computer could write you a story, then you as a storyteller are redundant. These pages are to stimulate your thinking, and help you overcome writer’s block. The plot outliner simply juxtaposes, not in any logical way, some Polti categories to give you ideas for plots. By merging with the Marienbad simulation, the musings of the Polti plot muser bring a degree more unity into the schema which emerges, but not much. It simply helps to remind us or convince ourselves that the attempt is to suggest one story, not several. The logic of your own story is your’s, but an exercise in creativity is to take one of these pages, and to force yourself to make a story, using the elements suggested, it being your choice, of course, what you consider the primary plot and what the subplots.

I should know… But it is hard to recall things…Ah, now I am beginning to remember. Was I seeking a lost gift? What was the gift? Was it her? Or was it based on the tragedy of the loss itself, as in Juno and the Paycock, or Casablanca, where the loss is both concrete and abstract. Rick gives a letter of transit allowing him to return to the USA to Lazlo, and Rick loses his personal happiness to save the world for democracy. In an opulent hotel with vast, angular gardens, and grand rooms decorated with silk drapes, damask and giltpictures, framed prints, fine oilslithographs of the gardens, bas reliefs, rococo carvings. On the walls were framed prints of the immense formal park outside with its exceedingly regular late seventeenth century French formal layout. All the paintings in the hotel were of the resort itself and its gardens. The hero and heroine face an obstacle to their love—age—the young mainly love others equal or lower in class, those in middle years often seek lovers superior in rank, older people look for younger lovers, tastes, and so on. Almost any story will have a love angle. Love is not a plot because it is not dramatic. The plot is introduced by obstacles to love, or in other ways. The example is that the love match is prevented by the families, clans or nations being enemies, The curtain fell to polite applause. Now, I seem to remember—a play, a production put on for the guests, it was so cold. A physical need, had set up a conflict instigated by a human dispatcher, or was it a nonhuman object, like the ring bequethed to Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings? Whatever! It started the hero on a quest for objectives he or someone desired like wealth.

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