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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Subject: Re: Intersting point? AND Flat antagonist?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:05:47 GMT
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- In article <Bxx2D1.L84@unx.sas.com>, sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) writes:
- |I am
- |certain that you can have a story without an antagonist. Examples that
- |leap to mind are "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and THE ACCIDENTAL
- |TOURIST.
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- Hmm. On rethinking that it occurs to me that Walter Mitty has an
- obvious antagonist in his wife. So let me substitute another Thurber
- story, "The Night the Bed Fell," in its place.
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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