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Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I’ve Got Love In My Dummy

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I’ve Got Love In My Dummy

SMALL PLATES: The Best Evil Ventriloquist Dummy Stories

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Karl Straub
Feb 25, 2022
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The innovative psychologist Carl Jung once identified seven basic story archetypes— The Hero’s Journey, The Rebirth, The Quest, The Ventriloquist’s Dummy’s Journey, and so forth.

These archetypes fit absolutely every story ever told, except for the ones they don’t fit.

This latter category is where you find experimental drama, narratives that break all …

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