A Sense of Doubt blog post #3131 - Vonnegut explains narrative structure in four minutes

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3131 - Vonnegut explains narrative structure in four minutes

Just this share today.

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In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

“The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.”

He plots stories on 2 axes:

X: Time
Y: Good fortune / ill fortune

He goes on to say,

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of… pic.twitter.com/1O8Ylu9LNb

— Nathan Baugh (@nathanbaugh27) August 21, 2023

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In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard. “The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.” He plots stories on 2 axes: X: Time Y: Good fortune / ill fortune He goes on to say, “Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.” Point 1: Stories have defined patterns. In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey. Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world. Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes. Each story, he said, fit one of the 8. Point 2: Vonnegut says, “Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.” To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer. Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for. Point 3: End on a high note. Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.” The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it. It’s called recency bias. Lift people up and they will love you. *** “There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2913 - Reading Vonnegut's Letters

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2913 - Reading Vonnegut's Letters

Today's share goes with what I am teaching this quarter for the first time since the late 1980s: VONNEGUT.

And I am going to teach him again -- Slaughterhouse Five -- next quarter and do a better job. This first time is a lot like a rough draft.

So, here's today's share.

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Benedict Cumberbatch & Ian McKellen Read Epic Letters Written by Kurt Vonnegut

in Books, Environment, Letters, Life, Literature | January 16th, 2023

https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/benedict-cumberbatch-ian-mckellen-read-epic-letters-written-by-kurt-vonnegut.html

Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Kurt Vonnegut at Letters Live, Hay Festival

Kurt Vonnegut is one of those writers whose wit, humanism and lack of sentimentality leave you hankering for more.

Fortunately, the prolific novelist was an equally prolific letter writer.

His published correspondence includes a description of the firebombing of Dresden penned upon his release from the Slaughterhouse Five POW camp, an admission to daughter Nanette that most parental missives “contain a parent’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice,” and some unvarnished exchanges with many of familiar literary names. (“I am cuter than you are,” he taunted Cape Cod neighbor Norman Mailer.)

No wonder these letters are catnip to performers with the pedigree to recognize good writing when they see it.

Having interpreted Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Ionesco, book lover Benedict Cumberbatch obviously relishes the straightforward ire of Vonnegut’s 1973 response to a North Dakota school board chairman who ordered a school janitor to burn all copies of Slaughterhouse-Five assigned by Bruce Severy, a recently hired, young English teacher.

In addition to Slaughterhouse-Five, the board also consigned two other volumes on the syllabus – James Dickey’s Deliverance and an anthology containing short stories by Faulkner, Hemingway and Steinbeck – to the fire.

Revisiting the event, the Bismarck Tribune reports that “the objection to (Slaughterhouse-Five) had to do with profanity, (Deliverance) with some homosexual material and the (anthology) because the first two rendered all of Severy’s choices suspect.”

A decade later, Vonnegut also revisited the school board’s “insulting” objections in the pages of  the New York Times:

Even by the standards of Queen Victoria, the only offensive line in the entire novel is this: ”Get out of the road, you dumb m(———–).” This is spoken by an American antitank gunner to an unarmed American chaplain’s assistant during the Battle of the Bulge in Europe in December 1944, the largest single defeat of American arms (the Confederacy excluded) in history. The chaplain’s assistant had attracted enemy fire.

Word is Vonnegut’s letter never received the courtesy of a reply.

One wonders if the recipient burned it, too.

Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Kurt Vonnegut

If that 50 year old letter feels germane, check out Vonnegut’s 1988 letter to people living 100 years in the future, a little more than 50 years from where we are now.

In many ways, its commonsense advice surpasses the evergreen words of those it namechecks – Shakespeare’s Polonius, St. John the Divine, and the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. The threat of environmental collapse it seeks to stave off has become even more dire in the ensuing years.

Vonnegut’s advice (listed below) clearly resonates with Cumberbatch, a vegan who leveraged his celebrity to bring attention to the climate crisis when he participated in the Extinction Rebellion Protests in London.

1. Reduce and stabilize your population.

2. Stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil.

3. Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.

4. Teach your kids, and yourselves, too, while you’re at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.

5. Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.

6. Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid.

7. And so on. Or else.

Ian McKellen reads Kurt Vonnegut's inspirational letter to some students

Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at the age of 84, never lost his touch with young readers. Who better to recite his 2006 letter to his fans in New York City’s Xavier High School’s student body than the ever youthful, ever curious actor and activist, Sir Ian McKellen?

Cumberbatch is a wonderful reader, but he’d require a bit more seasoning to pull these lines off without the aid of major prosthetics:

You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. 

Now if only these gents would attempt a Hoosier accent…

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– Ayun Halliday is the Chief Primatologist of the East Village Inky zine. Its current issue celebrates Kurt Vonnegut’s centennial. Her most recent books are Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto and Creative, Not Famous Activity Book. Follow her @AyunHalliday.

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2882 - 100 Years of Vonnegut - New Covers Spine Magazine

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2882 - 100 Years of Vonnegut - New Covers Spine Magazine

Though not comic books for Comic Book Sunday, this share today to add more Vonnegut content to my blog as I prepare to teach Slaughterhouse-Five.

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Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID BOWIE but more of that tomorrow.

https://spinemagazine.co/articles/kurt-vonnegut-centenary-celebration

DESIGN STUDIO MILK & BONE'S DESIGNER ALICIA RAITT RE-IMAGINES ALL 14 OF KURT VONNEGUT’S BOOK COVERS TO CELEBRATE HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY

 

Today (11th November 2022) is the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut’s 100th birthday, and tonight, a collection of Plymouth artists will present ‘Kurt Vonnegut, Centenary Celebration’, an exhibition featuring poetry, art, music and film inspired by the novels of this legendary author.

As part of the collective’s creative output, Milk & Bone designer Alicia Raitt has re-imagined all 14 of Vonnegut’s book covers.

Each design aims to capture the balance between beauty and despair which underpins Vonnegut’s writing. Zombie-like characters reflect his sardonic worldview and darkly-humorous commentary on American culture.

Stylistic consistency is established with a design system inspired by the classic 1960s Marber grid, leaving the illustrations to set the scene.

“It was very interesting reading an author’s body of work in chronological order, seeing how he develops as an artist and discovering the recurrent themes that are integral to his work. One of the aspects I enjoyed most about Vonnegut was the repetition of concepts such as free will, and character cameos from previous novels that would reappear. This inspired me to incorporate reoccurring themes into the covers.”

“I have always been drawn to image-making and this project has allowed me to explore that. With each design I have tried to create an iconic image that captures the wit and essence of the novel. Some are approached conceptually, Player Piano explores how automation impacts humanity’s sense of purpose. Others like The Sirens of Titan and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater are inspired by specific snapshots of plot and character.”

The exhibition was born out of a simple book club with the ambition of reading and then discussing each of Kurt Vonnegut’s 14 novels in order of publication. The members then went on to explore a creative response to his work. This resulted in illustration, poetry, photography, music and film inspired by the novels read and the discussions had.

The exhibition will be shown for one night only at Leadworks in Plymouth on Friday 11 November. Admission is free.

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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1177 (SoD #1603) - Timeless Flow - me in costume 1967 - Throwback for Thursday July 11, 2019

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1177 (SoD #1603) - me in costume 1967 - Timeless Flow - Throwback for Thursday July 11, 2019

In this photo, I am standing in our cottage on Long Lake in Traverse City. The grill behind is the one my dad made to go around the heating unit. That's the kitchen to the left side of the picture and the white stool that was a constant fixture in our home, a piece of furniture that my mother must have bought either while we lived in Traverse City or even in Midland.

I see snow out the window, which means it's surely winter. I was about to pose a mystery, when I realized my math was wrong. This is 1967 not 1969. If I am 5 3/4 years old, this means the photo is from October-November 1967, unless that is not snow out the window and then the photo may have been taken a bit earlier. I had written 1969 here in the post, so I had to change it.

Why am I dressed up? I don't know. Probably just for play. A yellow umbrella? A toy gun? A shawl and a red hat. For years, the red hat was a common fixture in my play time. I believe I even wore it years later as part of a school costume. I loved that hat. I miss those simple times in which love of a single thing like a toy hat is one of the most important things in a day. Maybe I need to find my red hat?

Hello again, Here we are once more for throwback photos and random bits of things. I have quite an assortment in this grab bag package.

Speaking of grab bags, what's with that retail phenomenon to subscribe to a service that sends you a box of swag every month built around some theme? It seems like a way for retailers to unload inventory that's not moving on consumers who are more excited to receive it if in a surprise, grab bag type box, but would dismiss it and pass on buy if it was on a shelf in their local store.

Things like this:

https://www.cryptocurium.com/parcel-of-terror-subscription-box/

or here's a whole bunch of comic book ones....

https://www.cratejoy.com/box-insider/comic-and-anime-subscription-boxes/

My weekly surprise grab bag does not come in a box and can be viewed without the presence of a fox. It will not take up shelf space and will not have to find its place in your already cluttered home.

Scroll on and see. There's lots of material borrowed from Warren Ellis' excellent newsletter. After all, when isn't there this theme?

Starting with this:

So, stop to look at this amazing ceramic bowl with Aramaic magic inscription and let's get to it:

COMIC BOOK NEWSLETTERS

https://www.comicbookyeti.com/post/9-must-read-comics-newsletters

Of course, Warren Ellis gets a mention from Yeti at the link above. The image is from Brubaker's newsletter. Ellis' newsletter is as much about things other than comics as it is about comics. He is doing as much non-comics writing as writing in comics. Still, there's comics content in it, so it qualifies. It is by fair my favorite newsletter. Consider subscribing to Orbital Operations.

AND NOW THE NEWS........

• Google Unveils 'Code With Google,' Awards $1 Million To CS Teachers Group
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• Bitcoin Mining On an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 Seconds Per Hash
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• Moon Landing Could Have Infected the Earth With Lunar Germs, Say Astronauts
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• Serious Zoom Security Flaw Could Let Websites Hijack Mac Cameras
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• Indoor Carbon Dioxide Levels Could Be a Health Hazard, Scientists Warn

I already posted the thing about using the Apollo Guidance Computer to mine bitcoin: HERE, just two days ago because it was too good to ignore. I liked this list of links, so I just decided to post them all.

And then this one, great news! YAY!!

https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/07/09/2018205/github-removed-open-source-versions-of-deepfakes-porn-app-deepnude

GitHub Removed Open Source Versions of 'Deepfakes' Porn App DeepNude (vice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:40PM from the cease-and-desist dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard:GitHub recently removed code from its website that used neural networks to algorithmically strip clothing from images of women. The multiple code repositories were spun off from an app called DeepNude, a highly invasive piece of software that was specifically designed to create realistic nude images of women without their consent. The news shows how after DeepNude's creator pulled the plug on his own invention late last month following a media and public backlash, some platforms are now stopping the spread of similar tools."We do not proactively monitor user-generated content, but we do actively investigate abuse reports. In this case, we disabled the project because we found it to be in violation of our acceptable use policy," a GitHub spokesperson told Motherboard in a statement. "We do not condone using GitHub for posting sexually obscene content and prohibit such conduct in our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines." 

The "Sexually Obscene" section of GitHub's Community Guidelines states: "Don't post content that is pornographic. This does not mean that all nudity, or all code and content related to sexuality, is prohibited. We recognize that sexuality is a part of life and non-pornographic sexual content may be a part of your project, or may be presented for educational or artistic purposes. We do not allow obscene sexual content or content that may involve the exploitation or sexualization of minors."


And from the THIS IS SO COOL department.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/07/07/027234/astrophysicist-tries-machine-learning-to-generate-a-black-hole-movie

Astrophysicist Tries Machine Learning To Generate a Black Hole Movie (hpe.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 07, 2019 @09:34AM from the making-movies dept.

One of the scientists who worked on the black hole picture is now pursuing an even more ambitious visualization, this time for the super-massive black hole at the center of our own galaxy.

Long-time Slashdot reader Esther Schindler shares this report from Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Insights blog:Lia Medeiros, a physicist, astrophysicist, and National Science Foundation fellow, is working to put together a movie of sorts of a black hole, using data from the Event Horizon Telescope, a global telescope array that gave scientists the data needed to capture that first black hole image. And she's going to do it using machine learning... Scientists basically will be pitting Einstein's theory of general relativity, which tells us what we know, or think we know, about gravity, against the most powerful gravitational forces in the universe. It's about comparing these new black hole observations with predictions based on our mathematical models of them. And if general relativity doesn't fully hold up at the event horizon, then the theory may need to be rethought. 

Her work also could tell us more about how quantum mechanics, which is still quite mysterious to the best physicists, interacts with the theory of gravity... Having a black hole movie could be a scientific game changer because they are one of the only types of objects in the universe that scientists need both theories to explain. Black holes, simply put, live at the intersection of quantum and gravity. Movies of a black hole could give scientists the information they need to see if they behave the way we expect them to, helping them figure out the complicated intersection of two major scientific theories.

And these.... worth a peek.

https://idle.slashdot.org/story/19/07/07/0324255/can-you-beat-the-worlds-worst-user-interface

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/07/07/0127225/in-bold-experiment-facebook-creates-independent-oversight-board-for-content-decisions

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— Jen Monroe 🗽🌐 (@jenniferm_q) July 3, 2019

from the this is strange but kind of cool department.

Here's some recent comments posted to my blog:

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Being a vampire has certain limitations, but it can also be a ton of fun. Your extra strengths and abilities can make you successful in almost every endeavor you participate in and before you know it the money and acquaintances will come streaming in. You can build wealth and gain prestige and notoriety and attempt things you may never have even considered as a human. One thing you will definitely have more of is time. Beef up your education and learn all you ever wanted to. Travel the world to see things most people only ever see on TV This is going to be especially fun if you turned to share your life with one of us. Let us show you the wonders of the world. Learn new languages, go skydiving or scuba dive with sharks, visit the African safari. You no longer need to be scared of nature or wildlife you will have become the worlds strongest predator. Have fun with it and your life as a vampire can be more fulfilling than you ever dreamed. Explore, experiment, experience and get excited. There’s a big world out there with lots to see and do and as a vampire, you can do it all, if willing and ever ready to be a full blooded vampire with powers and mighty great skills then these is the opportunity for you to get transformed and turned into a vampire, contact the mighty Lord Shaka and also he is a vampire lord, find him on his email and lay your request and heart wishes to him, trust me you will find him on;( lordshakavampirekingdom@gmail.com ). 

and

Are you tired of being human, having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten minutes, Do you want to have power and influence over others, To be charming and desirable, To have wealth, health, without delaying in a good human posture and becoming an immortal? If yes, these your chance. It's a world of vampire where life get easier,We have made so many persons vampires and have turned them rich, You will assured long life and prosperity, You shall be made to be very sensitive to mental alertness, Stronger and also very fast, You will not be restricted to walking at night only even at the very middle of broad day light you will be made to walk, This is an opportunity to have the human vampire virus to perform in a good posture. If you are interested contact us on Vampirelord7878@gmail.com 


I am not responding, but I must say that I am intrigued. I have no idea what the con is with these messages, but I was very amused by the idea and the Vampire Lord Shaka lacks a mastery of grammar. Perhaps he's new to computers and gmail.

FROM ORBITAL OPERATIONS BY WARREN ELLIS

I recorded the three seconds of sound that accompanies the newly unveiled ident for Warren Ellis Productions. It will first be seen (and heard) at the end of the forthcoming third season of Castlevania on Netflix. You can read more about the visual side of the ident on Roger Strunk's site here. It is a very interesting read. You can watch the hi-res version here. You can listen to the music I provided for the ident here for free, along with three other proposed and discarded ideas. I've written about my recording process in the liner notes, so I won't repeat myself here. The recording was inspired in part by my STATION IDENT series. I will say that it's not only an honor to be a small part of the Ellis team, but also to be tangentially tied to the Castelvania franchise. I was around 10 years old and a ravenous video game enthusiast when the original Nintendo game was released, and I loved it. Still do. The music especially. This is sort of a full-circle thing that I'm still wrapping my head around. So thanks again to Warren for the opportunity. I am looking forward to the next season very much. (Already was, but now...) I recently released twenty-five hour long non-music pieces under the ROOMS: A Series title. When that finished (?) with Room Twenty-five, I also released a compilation titled ROOMS: A Series, First Map, that took short segments from each Room, trimming the overall running time for the entire series down to, I think, a more manageable two hours. These aren't exactly radio friendly unit shifters, but at least they tick the running time boxes a bit more often. I think that's enough for now. Thank you for your attention. Bye. -Zac

I picked up a new edition of ULYSSES to re-read the other week -- I don't think I've read it since I was around 20 -- and started it a couple of nights back.  Found these in the new (to me) long foreword:

Standing on the verge of modernity in 1800, Schlegel proved himself a prophet, in the sense of one who saw so deeply into the artistic conditions of his own time that the shape of future texts became discernible. He foretold the emergence of a new mythology, which would be less a radical act of creation than a ‘collaboration’ between old and new. Ancient myths embodied people’s immediate response to their physical experience and were not seen as fictive by their adherents; but the new mythology would be abstract and aware of its own fictive status. ‘It must be the most artificial of all works of art, for it is to encompass all others,’ he declared...

For Eliot, the method of Ulysses had ‘the importance of a scientific discovery’, and so he boldly declared that ‘instead of narrative method we may now use the mythical method’.

The mythic underpinnings of ULYSSES are largely invisible to the casual reader, which is why Joyce had to draw up fucking charts to explain his analogous structures for people.  But the "new mythology" -- which was a term independently invented several times over in the 20th century to explain things like superhero comics themes and continuities -- seems to me like a thing worth reconsideration here at the end of the second ten-trial decade of the 21C.

Now, check this out.  Steen Comer sent me this.  Don't currently have any more context than the tweet, but clearly I need to research this.  The original tweet.  Text and photo below:

The mammoth bone huts at Mezhirich near Kiev are ~15,000 years old. The base of each dwelling is a circle of interlocking woolly mammoth jaw bones. The bones for each dwelling weighed about 20 tonnes.

SOME IMAGERY

BOWIE!!!!!!!!!!!!




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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.