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"The commmon notion seems to be in favor of mere complexity, but a plot, properly understood, is perfect only inasmuch as we shall find ourselves unable to detach from it or disarrange any single incident involved, without destruction to the mass.
This we say is the point of perfection--a point never yet attained, but not on that account unatainable. Practically, we may consider a plot as of high eccellence when no one of its component parts shall be susceptible of removal without detriment to the whole. Here, indeed, is a vast lowering of the demand and with less than this no writer of refined taste should content himself."
As written by Edgar Allan Poe. |
