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• February 26th, 2021

  As Eldritch points out, the word Plot usually refers to the coherent narrative that a typical screenplay needs, but it's also characteristically used by conspiracy theorists and potheads to refer to an illusory Pattern projected on the world's Nebulosity.

  It's a basic rule of screenplays that every line of dialogue should carry the Plot forward. In drama, acting mostly means talking. But a film narrative is made up of words and actions. In a central paragraph, MacIntyre writes:

  So the film has Plot itself as an ironic theme. It's hard to remember the actual plot of the film because it's so convoluted, digressive, and random. Like the Dude says:

• March 1st, 2021

  The Vertical is about Quest, Plot, and Narrative, while the Horizontal is about Things, Places, and Characters.

• March 26th, 2021

  Reading a newspaper is like reading a novel whose author has abandoned any thought of a coherent Plot. *

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  Reading a newspaper is like reading a novel whose author has abandoned any thought of a coherent Plot.