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                                             June       5, 2010
                                             September 30, 2020
     
  Re-reading a bunch of the Elliot Paul    
  mystery novels (really, alcohol comedies)    
  about Homer Evans, I was thinking that           ALCOHOL_COMEDY
  Elliot Paul is a good counter-example to  
  my usual claim that stories are best off            LIFE_OF_HOMER
  with a single viewpoint, or perhaps a    
  tightly controlled small number of       
  viewpoints.                              


     I was working on a theory, e.g. with
     "Hugger Mugger in the Louvre" that
     since the good guys all function as a       It could be that in any
     team that held nothing back from each       sort of plot formula,
     other, they essentially functioned as       it's possible to swap in
     a single POV split up into many             groups of human beings in
     bodies, and hence the story remains         place of individuals.
     engaging despite breaking one of my
     favorite "rules".                                    INTERSTELLAR_OP
                                                          
         POV                          (Boys meet girls, 
                                                             boys lose girls,  
      But then there's the later book in the series,         boys get girls.)
      "Fracas in the Foothills", where the author
      appears to be determined to do a "kitchen sink"
      story with every character ever used throughout
      the series, and more besides.  The prefunctory
      touching-base with each one in turn gets rather
      dull, only barely readable.

          An odd application of "Kauffman's Law":
          a network with too many highly connected     CONTROL
          nodes gets overwhelmed at the amount of
          information exchange.






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