Vonnegut teaches plot

Here is Kurt Vonnegut having some fun explaining curves of emotional energy in stories. This is worth four minutes:

I found this referenced in The Bestseller Code, by Archer & Jockers, a book about algorithmic text-mining of bestselling books. Can a computer spot patterns in the text of the novels on the NYT bestsellers list? I’m sure I’ll post about it when I finish it.

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