A friend of mine reminded me that I had a copy of 20 Master Plots on my bookshelf, and I pulled it down to riffle through it once more.
It amazes me just how weirdly out-of-date the whole section on romance and love is. The book was written in 1993, only 18 years ago, and yet the passim treatment of homosexuality (mentioned only in "Forbidden Love," naturally), the nouveau of "Girl romances boy," shows just how archaic it is. The whole kit and kaboodle of the past 20 years' worth of love and affection and romance (gads, some of which I helped shape) is just missing from this book. I didn't expect the world to change that fast, and yet it has.
Good.
It amazes me just how weirdly out-of-date the whole section on romance and love is. The book was written in 1993, only 18 years ago, and yet the passim treatment of homosexuality (mentioned only in "Forbidden Love," naturally), the nouveau of "Girl romances boy," shows just how archaic it is. The whole kit and kaboodle of the past 20 years' worth of love and affection and romance (gads, some of which I helped shape) is just missing from this book. I didn't expect the world to change that fast, and yet it has.
Good.
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