thread: 2011-05-18 : Ben Lehman: Rules and their Functions
On 2011-05-19, Ben Lehman wrote:
It's at a social level.
So like, for instance, Happy Ends. In Happy Ends, all the characters must have a happy ending. In a lot of social circles, this doesn't qualify as unexpected or unwelcome. In jeep circles, though, where tragedy and misery are the rule of the day for characters, a Happy Ending is decidedly unwelcome, and thus brings with it the boundary stretching possibilities Vincent is discussing in posts early.
Make sense?
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—Ben
