“Isn’t it? Formulas are the essence of comfort. Not just for the creators, but for the viewer. Especially for the viewer. When viewers get what they expect to get, when they expect to get it, that’s comfort.” “It’s really the essence of art!” Delaney said. “See, you get it. It’s just another set of guidelines, within which the writer has complete freedom. Like, the alphabet has twenty-six letters. That’s one set of constraints that no one seems to have a problem with. We only have so many words—another constraint. Sentences can only be so long—yet another necessary constraint.” “Constraints
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