Experiences entered by angusif

The Yellow Wallpaper
Experience: Paranoia
Narrative Technology: Vigilance Trigger
"There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Divine Comedy
Experience: Paranoia
Narrative Technology: Vigilance Trigger
The presence of Medusa (a pagan myth) and Virgil (the author of a pagan poem, The Aeneid) in a Christian cosmos
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Gold Rush
Experience: Optimism
Narrative Technology: Lucky Twist
The Tramp is "an impoverished doof who bumbles through a Klondike snowstorm into a stroke of fortune: a warm cabin where the Tramp meets a prospector who's made a lucky strike. From here, more fortunate Twists ensue, making the Tramp filthy rich" (118).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Facetious Nights of Straparola (Adamantina and the Doll)
Experience: Optimism
Narrative Technology: Lucky Twist
A poor girl buys a doll instead of food when her sister sends her to market, but the doll turns out to be a magic doll who unleashes much good fortune for the girls.
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025