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Anonymous Sun Apr 2 23:50:04 2023 No.21865823 [Reply] [Original]

>A story within a story

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 23:51:38 2023 No.21865831 File: 269 KB, 655x599, 1663857461469512.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I did this in my novella. Is that bad?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:43:31 2023 No.21865997 >>21865823 Never read the Arabian Nights.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:52:25 2023 No.21866026 >>21865823 >story within the story mirrors story without the story

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:53:44 2023 No.21866034 >>21865831 No. It's an archetype because it's compelling and people have always and will always enjoy reading it. Just make sure to give it your own twist to prevent it from being trite.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:15:31 2023 No.21866251 >>21865997 Petronius also does this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:32:41 2023 No.21866307 >>21865823 The Pickwick Papers is cool

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:41:47 2023 No.21866331 >>21865823 This is kino though. See: Heart of Darkness.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 03:35:13 2023 No.21866488 >>21865823 A well-read /lit/tard

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 03:40:38 2023 No.21866499 >>21865823 TBK did it well enough

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 03:45:13 2023 No.21866514 File: 63 KB, 512x512, 1668230956637023.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865823 Goddam, those are the BEST

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 09:17:21 2023 No.21867141 >>21865823 If On A Winter's Night A Traveler is such a good book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 10:20:10 2023 No.21867238 For me, it's the Grand Inquisitor. >>21866514 What the fuck, an old e-pal of mine drew that. I think they commited suicide, your pic genuinely fucking depresses me. Do you happen to know them also?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 10:40:23 2023 No.21867260 >entire novella within the story don quixote is wild

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 11:15:49 2023 No.21867310 >>21867260 came in here to mention this exactly. I didn't like it tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 11:21:37 2023 No.21867319 >>21865823 You don't like Shakespeare?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 12:41:46 2023 No.21867457 >stories within stories, within a story >if you have all the volumes on your shelf at the same time you risk being drawn in as the next metalayer of story Man, the Mahabharata is interesting. Shame that India is the way it is now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 14:08:21 2023 No.21867679 >>21867260 wildly boring

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 14:22:33 2023 No.21867722 >>21867260 Worst part.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 14:23:43 2023 No.21867725 >>21865823 For me it's the parables.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 14:52:41 2023 No.21867790 >>21867238 >Able to escape online addiction >They suicided yo!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 15:40:04 2023 No.21867924 >>21867790 Suicidal as of our last talk. Culled everything, including art.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 18:12:51 2023 No.21868447 File: 136 KB, 450x450, 1658568159748985.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865823 >a play within a play the patrician's choice

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:48:58 2023 No.21869199 File: 349 KB, 720x1004, 1680558447112.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >characters of the book are obsessed with the book itself >but it's an alternate reality, so fuck you reader, you can't complain now

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 22:00:06 2023 No.21869245 File: 58 KB, 1024x885, 1680259334006416m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21868447 >dude playing a dude disguised as another dude