[UA] Plot help? (long)

[Matthew R. Norwood]

> Of course, that sort of thing would be tremendously expensive 
> and complicated... unless it was the same group of "actors" 
> and the same limited number of locations each time.  Hey, 
> that could even work -- if the locations are places that are 
> important to him, but from which his memories are divorced.  
> Repeated spoofing could wear down the repression.  "Wait, 
> this isn't the madhouse from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's 
> Nest' -- this is my old mansion!"

That brings to mind "The Magus" by John Fowles. Great book. Lots of
desert-island-scene-reenactment-reusing-the-same-actors madness. I guess
it must have been the "inspiration" for the TV series "Fantasy Island".

Matt Norwood



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