I am getting some more sense of a potential idea related to the concepts of content and context that I have recently been exploring. This is getting a bit more grounded, though it is still abstract and undetailed, it is, however, in the direction of an actual technique or approach. In many ways, the structures that are found in fiction, the contexts that supply the meaning for the relative contents, are universal. We have all been in a wide variety of situations that are metaphorical to fictional tropes in some way or another, and we all have relationships with people that could be interpreted as analogues of relationships in stories. If one picked a well known and largely universal story, one might be able to conceive of a way to correlate content from a reader's experience with the content in the story itself. That is, to use Cinderella once more, one might endeavor to cause the reader to recall events from their own life and organize them into a ve...
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