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                                         July 30 - October 9, 2018

In Section XVIII, Aristotle                           ARISTOTLE_POETICS
presents the two parts of tragedy:

   Complication -> Unraveling


   "Many poets tie the knot well,
   but unravel it ill."



Aristotle cautions against trying to squeeze
too much into a single play: turning an
"epic" into a tragedy doesn't work.

And "by an Epic structure I mean one
with a multiplicity of plots".              (To this day, I think we continue
                                            to use the same terminology, but
                                            in a somewhat dissipated form:
                                            No one would regard "epic" as 
                                            a term of disparagement.)




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