Technology: Secret Discloser

A technology in which a narrator shares an intimate secret about a character. Sometimes the narrator is revealing their own secret and sometime another character’s secret.

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Oh, Mary!
Experience: Wonder
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
"Have you ever had a really good day?" (Escola's manner shifts in a completely believable way)
Contributed by: mi
June 15, 2025
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
"I heard a noise in the room where we left our coats. I opened the door, and I saw Patrick kissing Brad. It was a stolen type of kissing. They heard me in the door and turned around."
Contributed by: Morgan
June 4, 2025
Good Will Hunting
Experience: Released Emotion Brake
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
“SEAN My father was an alcoholic. Mean fuckin' drunk. He'd come home hammered, lookin' to wail on somebody. So, I had to provoke him so he wouldn't go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings. WILL Yeah...he used to just put a uh...a wrench, a stick, and a belt on the table, and just say choose. SEAN Well, I gotta' go with the belt there, Vanna. WILL Uh..well, I used to go with the wrench. SEAN Why the wrench? WILL cus' Fuck him, that's why. SEAN Your foster father? WILL Yeah. So uh...you know, what is it? Like, Will has an attachment disorder? Is it all that stuff? Fear of abandonment? Is that why uh...Is that why I broke up with Skylar? SEAN I didn't know you had. WILL Yeah...I did. SEAN You wanna talk about it? WILL No... SEAN Hey, Will? I don't know a lot. But you see this? All this shit. It's not your fault. WILL Yeah, I know that. SEAN Look at me, son. It's not your fault. WILL I know. SEAN It's not your fault. WILL I know. SEAN No, no, you don't. It's not your fault. WILL I know. SEAN It's not your fault. WILL All right. SEAN It's not your fault. It's not your fault. WILL Don't fuck with me. SEAN It's not your fault. WILL Don't fuck with me all right? Don't fuck with me, Sean, not you. SEAN It's not your fault...It's not your fault... WILL (through heavy sobbing) Oh God....Oh God, I'm so sorry...” (Miramax, Good Will Hunting transcript)
Contributed by: AACB
May 28, 2025
Confessions
Experience: Self-Love
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
"I was a chatterbox, a glutton, and occasionally a liar too." "I would read all night, unable to stop."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Jane Eyre
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
In the moment he is announcing his engagement to Miss Ingram, Rochester says (after Jane says that a new situation will be a long way "from you, sir") "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land came braod between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion that I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you--you'll forget me"
Contributed by: mi
January 9, 2025
Sappho's Lyrics
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
Some say that horsemen,/ or soldiers, or ships,; are the most beautiful things on earth--but I say it's your love. Isn't that why/ Helen, the most beautiful/ of women,/ left the best of men/ and sailed to Troy?// Forgetting her child/ and her mother, because; in a glance she felt// Love
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025