MacGuffins
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Mariners...top of fifth...Angels 6-0...just back from snacking pizza and watching NBA playoffs...Raptors looked to be winning first game...the post I lost yesterday was too long, so, just as well...essentially, it was this:...just as in the New World the antiquarians find overlaps in motifs, they find them in Old World too...but the Old World has been gone over and over since, well, the Old World...and ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and such, all had ideas of where they came from...and scholars back then debated and debated...likely the New World had such scholars too, but their on and ons unrecorded, sorta...and then the Europeans came to the Americas, and they followed on with the Old World studies, and applied them to the New World...things like Plato's Atlantis became the Americas...simple...the Phoenician brought Old World culture to the New World...simple...this to say, they found explanations that fit the Old World takes on where civilization came from...never mind that things didn't add up!...Angels with bases loaded...so, so, finding things in the 19th Century, one bumps into the simple stories, the 'simple' truth, as it were...gapper that bangs off the wall by Renifo...two more Angel runs...Angels 8-0...truth is complicated!...Fletcher on, fc...Trout up...over time and geography, the step fret motif moved around all the Americas, and very old examples in Peru...the Phoenicians are noted for picking up Egyptian motifs, and the trick to make the simple story true, would be to find Egyptian/Phoenician motifs in the New World..."There's pyramids, DavidDavid, what else do we need?"...well, yeah, but...and finding Greek motifs in the New World lends to the tale of Atlantis being the Americas....well, the greek keys are a lookalike with the grecas/step frets...so, so, I dunno...Angels made out...to bottom of fifth...and then the Mysterions come along and attribute everything to Alien intervention...the ancients themselves thought as much, gods, goddesses, angels, and such..."oh my"...lol...Seattle with two rbi home run...Angels 8-2...and Hollywood doesn't help...my familiarity with motifs makes movie watching problematic...just watched 'Catherine's Tale: Star Gate', or some such....the first Stargate tale is added too with a flashback to when the gate was first found in Egypt...and the Nazis take it over, having been in the hunt for it...Nazi archaeologists scouring the world for ancient weapons of power is a Hollywood motif...it shows up in Raiders of the Lost Arc...a contraption not unlike the Star Gates shows up The Man in the High Castle...lifting and borrowings between Hollywood story tellers is common place...what are they called, tropes?...brb...Pujos grounds out...oh!...they don't have Ohtani in the line up!...hmmph...trope is a figure of speech...so, I don't know what the movie term is for a common plot device...brb...
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A plot device, or plot mechanism,[citation needed] is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward.[1] A contrived or arbitrary plot device may annoy or confuse the reader, causing a loss of the suspension of disbelief. However a well-crafted plot device, or one that emerges naturally from the setting or characters of the story, may be entirely accepted, or may even be unnoticed by the audience.
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Many stories, especially in the fantasy genre, feature an object or objects with some great power. Often what drives the plot is the hero's need to find the object and use it for good, before the villain can use it for evil, or if the object has been broken by the villains, to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it, or, if the object itself is evil, to destroy it. In some cases destroying the object will lead to the destruction of the villain.
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A MacGuffin is a term, popularized by film director Alfred Hitchcock, referring to a plot device wherein a character pursues an object, though the object's actual nature is not important to the story. Another object would work just as well if the characters treated it with the same importance.[5] Regarding the MacGuffin, Alfred Hitchcock stated, "In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers."[6] This contrasts with, for example, the One Ring (from The Lord of the Rings), whose very nature is essential to the entire story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_device#Examples_of_stories_using_plot_devices
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hmmph...MacGuffins...to top of seventh...Angels 8-2...oh!, bark bark...Maya, my dog, telling me she is on about an opossum...bbk....gave her dinner...no opossum...Angels make out...to bottom of seventh...and, and then there is my Pythagorean whimsy...and it really was a whimsy, just a no brainer dumb, when I first articulated it...but then I noticed the triangle element of the step fret triangle motif...in the Old World, its part of the debate; when the Pythagoreans originated...one can sort of intuit where that knowledge of geometry started in the motifs...motifs that look to be drawn with a compass and straight edge, follow that across geography and time...the ancient motifs are often geometric...but a time comes when they become exact, and look to be drawn/made with tools...compass, straight edge...and grids...grids show up in both Old and New Worlds....and, I haven't gone on much about yesterday's lost post at all!...just as well...for sometime its bits and pieces I'll include...should be doing Humboldt tonight what with the team in the Northwest!...Humboldt wandered around Mesoamerica and South America for like five years...this in 1799 or so...for sometime...the geometric motifs in the New World hark to, echo, the ones in the Old World...top of eighth...one out, Trout up...has two hits and three rbi on the night...so, where was the 'first sound' that made all the echoes!...the step fret somewhere near Caral, the old adobe town in Peru?...the Phoenicians somewhere in Ethiopia?...originally Cushites, the oldest old world civilization?...that was yesterdays post...
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that I found in Baldwin's book, p393, see post two back, and his mention of Humboldt sent me thataway...and that 'planet worship' is spot on...again and again motifs turn out to be stylized expression of star lore and the rotation of the Earth around the sun...nowadays a calendar is just a calendar, but back then, it was sacred, awe inspiring, or some such...and playground of the Pythagoreans...Mariners make out...to top of ninth...'Pythagoreans' has become an expression for just 'them'...the ancients who knew the things that became the motifs...how we come to know things in an age may be a 'thing'...a Mozart hasn't come along, well, since Mozart...or a Leonardo de Vinci, or a William Shakespeare...every age, every culture, has such...but they seem to be unique to their time, and their geography...will the world ever see the like of Thomas Jefferson again?...I dunno...weak and strong, dumb and smart, everyone is a mixed bag...enough 'intuitive observation'!...lol...Calhoun drives in a run...Angels 9-3...Jefferson met and befriended Humboldt...two out...Renifo up...K...to bottom of ninth...I'm finding that the best 'scholars' of history are the war video gamers, and the alternate history buffs...they go on about finding things with a wariness of being lambasted for falsifying things by their peers!...and that's their primary concern...to just get things right!...Angels win...Angels 9-3...put a halo over this one...
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DavidDavid
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