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Ok, romance I don't know. Mystery: cozy=conservative, procedural=liberal. Funny (Psych, Monk)=liberal.
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There's also psycho-mystery (Dexter) and vigilante (Dirty Harry) mysteries that are conservative
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the point of mysteries is formulaic predictability with only the tiniest hints of surprise at predictable moments
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If it's a mystery about redneck killing LGBT married couple with black copy solving, but solution is simple..?
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oh "subculture" mystery fiction is a whole (rubbish) genre - people love the fiction that there are still subcultures
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"there are no subcultures" deserves a separate blog post argument outside of this art discussion
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SUPPOSEDLY I am writing one (tx ) but have been too busy to finish
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fyi David, I have classified you as "asymptotically interesting writer as t-->∞"
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thanks! Yes, I do hope to achieve interestingness when the end of time arrives
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You're a waterfall philosopher. Go agile dude! Scrum out the meaningness.
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Yeah, I’ve been posting more stub/draft/incomplete pages in past few months. Tradeoffs.
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