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"Plot is narrative at its most vulgar"
What makes plot vulgar? Really? I always thought plot is what added Spice[r[ to dull old narrative's allergorical yearnings. Hhahahh Oh well, it's rather like that old idea of rounded out characters and filled in ones, or being a taker out (Fitzgerald) or a putter in-ner(Wolfe) or Augustine's take on reason and good old Tommy the Aquainted. However one constructs, certainly they are contructions, and narratives and plots are like Eve and Adam, Able and Cainable, two sides of the same family coin of story yammering, spinning yarns . Everyone knows, or leastways everyone I know that reads that many narratives are just Jim Dandy without Plots, and there are millions of readers who'd say the contrary that a narrative sans plot ain't a plot at all but a dull piece of reading thuggery , where's my receipt give my money back. Among readers, who reads those writers of yore Mister Robby Grillet or others (even Beckett's strolling bum's are sustained by plots, indeed one might argue the absence of plot is what fuels their malaise) with their endless experimental stories sans plot sans narrative. Good old Chaucer _ famed of Canting tales to Canteredbury fabulous charming late John Gardener (SunLight Dialogues) a certain Lady Agatha Christie all three big hit tellers, grand old yarns with plots galore and so and so a happy plot to you and yer readers, the plot of this comment is tryin to get you,and the narrative is commentary as plot it's trying to kill me! Cheers from the snowy lands of Canada

AnD


J'e noticed out of the side of my glance at other comments someone taking the blazes out of good old Hardt and Negri who'd never in a billion years wish the poor on the poor: Let me quote from Multitudes where H&N are talking about the creativity and intelligence of the poor global wise
"'We are not Indians, we are the poors!' 'We are not Africans, we are the poors!' "The struggles of the poor against their conditions of poverty are not only powerful protests but also affirmations of biopolitical power _ the revelation of a common "being" that is more powerful than their miserable "having." .. . Another remarkable aspect is the global level on which the poor pose these grievances. They certainly direct their protests against local officials and the South African government, which they claim has sicne the end of apartheid deepened the misery of the majority of the poor, but they also target neoliberal globalization as the source of their poverty, and they found the occasion to express this in Durban, during the 2001UN World Conference against Racism. THese South African protesters are certainly right _ "We are the poors!" and perhaps in a way more general than they intend that slogan. We all participate in social production; this is ultimately the wealth of the poor." pp 136-7 I'd like to extend this discussion of Hardt and Negri to just one other element or a related one: Felix Guattari once said that analysands ought to be paid for doing analysis. Because they produce. So poets, and reader and the poor, the poor everywhere across the production circuits of global empire and capital. Yes be paid reader, writer, poor, produce yes, find your worker, where is yer pay? are you paid to read the plot less narrative which sustains the capital gain cutting yer flow leaving you hanging broke reader?
So it goes, and so we wish it otherwise. Blessings becomings to all and sundry a