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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.

It seems so long ago…Ah, now I am beginning to remember. The hero and heroine face an obstacle to their love—social class—young people often seek older lovers, those in middle years seek lovers roughly equal in age, older people often love younger people, though socially inferior, their temperaments, 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 hindered by one of them being thought to be married. Perhaps he—or she—might have neglected a favorite. Did they plan to elope together? Did you and I? Eventually you agreed. And we tried (was it once more?) to leave together. In the end you were ready to leave the hotel with me. I needed something—or did he?—some object to be gained by whatever means was necessary… eloquence in the face of someone, who was refusing to help. Didn't he try to use skills as an arbitrator in a dialectic contest of violent passion, like… like a courtroom drama. I seemed trapped in the procedure. Was there a way out? Could the situation be salvaged? Was I losing? Did I lose? Or succeed? Can I persuade you? Such grandeur, such elegance, so many charming high society people to mix with, converse with, enjoy the company of, yet the overwheming feeling here is one of loneliness—intolerable loneliness and isolation. It is as if an invisible barrier separates us.

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