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afd7699 I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean. hands plotting treachery George R.R. Martin
09883db I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). plot plotting Connie Willis
4e2959d "Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let writing plotting Ray Bradbury
af66f46 "On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished in the horrible drunk accident where it went headlong over the cliff of the author's preachy message, tumbled down the rocky hillside, crashed, and burned." literature philip-pullman plotting John C. Wright
02e0dc7 All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers' plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children's games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot. politics love plots narrative plotting terrorism don-delillo white-noise Don DeLillo
aaf1944 She wasn't blotto, she was plotting. lightbulbs plotting girl crazy Susanna Kaysen
436c519 Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill Claudius. We are all told Claudius will die by drinking the cup. Then Claudius dies choking on a chicken bone at lunch. Then the Queen dies when Horatio shows her the magical Mirror of Death. This mirror appears in no previous scene, nor is it explained why it exists. Then Ophelia summons up the Ghost from Act One and kills it, while she makes a speech denouncing the evils of religion. Ophelia and Hamlet are parted, as it is revealed in the last act that a curse will befall them if they do not part ways. shakespeare literature his-dark-materials philip-pullman plotting John C. Wright