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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
You are taking a rather narrow view of original here. Yes, in the broadest sense, there are only a limited number of plots (I think I read somewhere there were seven... man against man, man against nature, man against self, boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy looses girl, boy gets girl back... and those are just generic terms... you can swap genders and match them but I think those were the basic plot lines that are used in most fiction). That being said, there are tons of new ways to approach those plots and the elements that are used to make up the plot as well as what makes the characters tick, etc.
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You are not making any sense. You say that I'm taking "a rather narrow view" but then you explain this position "in the broadest sense". Are you not aware that narrow and broad are antonyms (opposite in meaning)?