Angus Fletcher
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2,582 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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And so I wanted to understand that.
And that's the opposite of how most academics think about story.
They think about stories being archetypes and eternal and formulas and whatnot.
And so I sort of came at it from the other perspective.
direction, which is I wanted to understand what makes every story unique and where it is that each storyteller gets their unique story from.
Where did you start to look at that?
Yeah, that's right.
This is a great question.
Yeah.
Well, and I think, again, it's important to say that I myself like a very limited in my own creative faculties.
And so this is a lot of times this is me sort of like...
going around trying to understand something that is a bit alien to me.
And so I often do it in a very idiosyncratic way.
But basically, who's the greatest storyteller of all time?
It's Shakespeare.
I should go get a PhD in Shakespeare because obviously people who study Shakespeare for a living must really understand story.
And then I got to the literature department at Yale and discovered none of them had any idea how stories work or how Shakespeare worked or how anything worked.
And so I just spent a few years.
The great thing about being a graduate student is you can be locked in a room by yourself and just be left alone.
And so I spent all this time just like reading Shakespeare, rereading Shakespeare, rereading Shakespeare and didn't understand a word of it, didn't understand any of it.
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