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Closely related to both Journey - frequent new locations.
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This feature was moved as a non-feature under Surreal because I felt like it was a little redundant as a feature.
However, I am increasingly dissecting surrealism into sub-features to the point where I may not need to directly refer to surrealism and instead connect the dots along its more precise children.
With that in mind, I moved this back to being a feature.
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When sequential scenes lack plot continuity but make a certain abstract sense, providing surreal transitions from one scene to the next.
A stream of consciousness.
It’s important to emphasize that from a rational perspective, intuitive continuity has to make no sense.
To some degree, this feature needs to both feel like the author is making things up as they go along, and feel totally excusable for appearing like that.
It helps if the story actually was written on-the-fly, except that there are downsides to story quality with that approach.
One of the classic examples of this is in Alice in Wonderland.
Alice grows large, cries a flood of tears, shrinks to a tiny size, and finds herself lost in a sea of her own tears.
In an immediate sense, the plot is random and illogical, but in another sense, each transition relies on patterns in the ideas and elements.
From the song True Love:
My heart bleeds Blood hits the ground The ground bears a seed And a rose is found