Great points, Tiv. I didn't read your post earlier because Kerri's question/post hit a nerve with me. But you're right. Even Dickens had it as a major plot-point in a lot of his books, as did Dumas. Heck, the overriding "plot" in Odysseus was his having to get back to his wife Penelope (all the while dicking around with Circe and other lovelies) and the Kingship.
Inanna was all about retrieving her husband from the underworld.
HOWever...taking *one* type of plot above all others and elevating it to Obsessive status is beyond all frustration, whether it's shorthand or not for "and it all happened happily".
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Date: 2007-12-22 01:27 am (UTC)Inanna was all about retrieving her husband from the underworld.
HOWever...taking *one* type of plot above all others and elevating it to Obsessive status is beyond all frustration, whether it's shorthand or not for "and it all happened happily".