Crime Drama

[Ian Livingston]

I think it was Toynbee who said that there is nothing so unpredictable as
the past.


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:20 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's all whoo dun it. Fictional scenarios are the method for "solving" the
> crime.  Fiction (plausible stories) plus evidence.  And what if evidence is
> false?
>
> Crime dramas are usually told from discovered body to the much earlier
> jealous slight.  Criminal Detectives have to be able to weave stories, and
> often parallel other stories. And they have to suspect evidence often, for
> various excuses.
>
> But Crime Dramas are temporally retrograde.  And the paths backward fork
> as much as the paths forward.  Roots versus Branches. Parallel, or
> mirrored, or fractured and scattered.  Time ripples in all directions.
>
> Great story tellers are usually puzzle makers, requiring strategic
> readers.  Sometimes the puzzles enslave the stories. Reverse stories will
> always be with us.
>
> David Morris
>
>
>


-- 
"We know that the mask of the unconscious is not rigid--it reflects the
face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect,
friendliness softens its features."
--C.G. Jung
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