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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.

Much is still oddly indistinct…Ah, now I am beginning to remember. Was there another factor involved?—a subtle third element? Was it there explicitly, and only I failed to notice it? Or was it introduced imperceptibly? Was it an instrument, the unrecognized ideal striven for by the two parties and the other characters? Was I driven to insane action by higher powers which can be a consuming hatred, used metaphorically for a science fiction or mystery genre. Walls, corridors, doors. Always walls, always corridors, always doors. Is this a hotel or a monastery in the middle ages? And, having passed through, still more corridors. I was walking desolate corridors between these walls. What am I doing here? How did I get here? Amnesia of various types offers powerful dramas which can still be used to illuminate any aspect of human relationships. The maniac awakens from madness to find chaos. Terror and doubt arise in his mind, and the onlookers are baffled by the rage of one who they trusted. Induce the madness by hypnotism. The symptoms begins with eccentricity, becoming paranoid. The madman is not mad but thinks he is through heredity. She seemed to have many good qualities but one fatal flaw, the emergence of which became the story. Or was the flaw my own? Will you decide, or will they? What is the upshot. It may be, like Achilles, tragic, but, in Marienbad, may seem like comedy and even farce. The hero has some human weakness, like any strong emotion, a desire, hunger, and consequently causes a hurt sometimes despite the appeals of a counsellor who cautions against the imprudent act, which is sometimes instigated by a thoughtless prompter—who could be made central. The instigator is motivated by jealousy.

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