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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4805803" data-attributes="member: 54707">After ruminating on it awhile I think I see what you're saying Cat.I'm gonna use the Lord of the Rings as my example of what I think you mean.The story of the War of the Rings wasn't just one war in a  series of wars involving the rings, and Sauron's Ring, but was the final one. It was the last one, and because of that the Old Order was overthrown. The old age ended entirely and a New Age began. The elves didn't just drift deeper into the woods, they left Middle Earth entirely.And Sauron wasn't just defeated, and the books weren't just about one in a  series of wars he fought against men and elves and dwarves. It was the final war, the one that ultimately and finally finished him completely.In other words it was conclusive. Complete. Final.It's not gonna be a replay of the same situation in a different form. It's not a change in degree but a change in kind, or nature.And if I'm following you correctly then you're saying that things that demonstrate or describe a sort of conclusive overthrow, and what that ultimately means, these things are imagination triggers. So therefore these kind of things tend to "stick in your imagination" intensely and long after the fact. It's a "stake in the nature of the world" sort of imagination trigger. One of the "Big Triggers." I'm thinking now that there are probably Big Triggers, or Cosmic or World-nature ones, as well as Personal or Individualized Imagination Triggers.Yeah, if I'm reading you right then what you said makes an awful lot of sense to me.Gotta go for now, but thanks for the reply.And thanks for the suggestion.It seems it worked.Sorta like a teaser or a synopsis or a headline paragraph.</blockquote>

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