It always neat to the see the surprising origin of something - how a chain of miscommunication/misunderstanding spreads. “‘Adjustment Day’? Don’t you mean, ‘A Judgement Day’?”
Interestingly enough, I created a liminoid event in the narrative of my first published short story - a ”suicide trend”. I guess nothing beats a good “action assimi…
It always neat to the see the surprising origin of something - how a chain of miscommunication/misunderstanding spreads. “‘Adjustment Day’? Don’t you mean, ‘A Judgement Day’?”
Interestingly enough, I created a liminoid event in the narrative of my first published short story - a ”suicide trend”. I guess nothing beats a good “action assimilation” structure. (Which I guess is the vicarious appeal of most literature in one form or another.)
Pretty much. I was referring to when (side) characters within a fictional narrative participate in an activity - be that fight clubs, party crashing, etc - and the activity has structure, rules or something that can be recognised as a replication of an action that has been previously performed by someone.
"What are the proverbial actions performed by characters in the gospels if not the archetypal method of trying to promote particular forms of action assimilation?" said the scholar, really hoping that the listeners would pick up on his coined term at the end of the claim. He had had it copyrighted and so it was now just a matter of waiting.
It always neat to the see the surprising origin of something - how a chain of miscommunication/misunderstanding spreads. “‘Adjustment Day’? Don’t you mean, ‘A Judgement Day’?”
Interestingly enough, I created a liminoid event in the narrative of my first published short story - a ”suicide trend”. I guess nothing beats a good “action assimilation” structure. (Which I guess is the vicarious appeal of most literature in one form or another.)
So does "action assimilation" mean when people adopt an action/practice from a story?
Pretty much. I was referring to when (side) characters within a fictional narrative participate in an activity - be that fight clubs, party crashing, etc - and the activity has structure, rules or something that can be recognised as a replication of an action that has been previously performed by someone.
"What are the proverbial actions performed by characters in the gospels if not the archetypal method of trying to promote particular forms of action assimilation?" said the scholar, really hoping that the listeners would pick up on his coined term at the end of the claim. He had had it copyrighted and so it was now just a matter of waiting.