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Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories illustrated with charts

Summary by FlowingData
New to me, a couple decades ago, author Kurt Vonnegut delivered a lecture on the shape of stories. He uses a diagrammatic line chart to illustrate. The y-axis represents a range from ill fortune to good fortune, and the x-axis represents beginning to end of a story. Vonnegut identifies four stories in the following video (and in a different lecture as a younger man), but poking around the internet, he seems to have illustrated eight at some poin…
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FlowingData broke the news in on Friday, April 18, 2025.
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