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Originally Posted by Delvo
Anything that didn't contribute to the story would be wasted time and is supposed to be excluded by any competent editor, or else the tale becomes an unnecessarily long stream of pointless rambling.
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I know this thread is about movies, but someone should have told Herman Melville about this when he was writing
Moby Dick. Good story, but I spent several chapters wondering what they had to do with the plot. Maybe I just missed a few metaphors or something.