I was listening to a talk by a historian Stephen Kotkin. He mentioned O’Brien’s works as shedding insight into what happened in WWII and what ends wars – loss of will to fight or end of resources to fight. So, I asked chatgpt about O’Brien.
Please provide a synopsis of Phillip Payson O’Brien’s works.
Continue reading “History and Cause”
What are the basic structures in human stories? Please list them all.
Can you explain the 22 rules of storytelling by pixar?
Think of storytelling as a way to engage primate / human biology. With that in mind, what are the structures of human storytelling?
think of a species whose biological characteristics are opposites of human biological characteristics. What would be possible storytelling structures for such a species? Continue reading “Storytelling and Structure”
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