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glen ropella on
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Roger Critchlow wrote at 08/20/2013 04:51 PM:
> An obituary for Elmore Leonard noted that his characters, when stressed,
> would suddenly act. But you never knew whether they were going to solve a
> crime or commit a crime or both at once until the act played out.
This adds a layer on top of TT3. It strikes me that the good authors can make their characters 3D by adding "just enough" surprising behavior. But trust is a relationship between 2 parties, which means each type has to be understood in terms of both its domain and co-domain.
TT1 (dist from Truth): many approximations to one Truth
TT2 (subject estimates the object): many subjective perspectives to many estimates of the object's attributes.
TT3 (journey not the destination): one subject's criteria for interestingness to many individuals who cover subsets of the criteria
TT4 (empathy): one subject to one object
TT5 (canalizing commonality): one predicate (e.g. alleged mobster) to one satisfying property (e.g. committing mobster crimes)
Leonard's reader-character relationships could be thought of as either TT[23]. But, I suspect TT3 is the better way to describe it. That's the point of the emphasis when people say _narrative_. TT[25] are often used as devices for sit-coms, where narrative is de-emphasized in favor of stereotypes.
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