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		gaius on Oct 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six sto... Thanks to new text-mining techniques, this has now been done Thanks text mining techniques! Here's an article saying the same thing almost word-for-word from 2004 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3632074/Everything...

shakethemonkey on Oct 29, 2018 | [–]

And then there's TV Tropes[1] which uses a finer measure

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Plots

stephengillie on Oct 28, 2018 | [–]

Everything new is old already.

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