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Hugin

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5. A plot device? Drama?

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Jul 5, 2022, 09:43 AM

Jul 2022

It moves the story along. Stories that chronicle someone quietly reading in a corner booth for two hours are seldom blockbusters.

Except for Samuel Beckett… He had an inscrutable knack.

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Is there a word or phrase that applies to books, movies, etc. that go like this? [View all] raccoon Jul 2022 OP

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