http://ask.metafilter.com/49877/Taxonomy-of-Detective-Story-Plots/ Comments on Ask MetaFilter post Taxonomy of Detective Story Plots Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:50:29 -0800 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:50:29 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/49877/Taxonomy-of-Detective-Story-Plots Can someone point me to an online copy of the taxonomy of detective story plots done by either the Oulipo or the Oulipopo? My Google-fu is failing me. <br /><br /> I think I owned the book that has it at one point but can't seem to find it.<br> I'm considering running through all of them for my nanowrimo attempt. post:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.49877 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:42:29 -0800 juv3nal detective story plot oulipo oulipopo http://ask.metafilter.com/49877/Taxonomy-of-Detective-Story-Plots#757116 It's not <a href="http://www.oulipocompendium.com/">The Oulipo Compendium</a> is it?<br> <br> <a href="http://www.nous.org.uk/oulipo.html">more on oulipo</a><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo">wikipedia on oulipo</a> comment:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.49877-757116 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:50:29 -0800 LobsterMitten http://ask.metafilter.com/49877/Taxonomy-of-Detective-Story-Plots#757215 <a href="http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/index.html">more to dig through here</a> comment:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.49877-757215 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:41:10 -0800 LobsterMitten http://ask.metafilter.com/49877/Taxonomy-of-Detective-Story-Plots#757254 Oulipo compendium (which I own) has an excerpt from it, but I once owned (maybe still do? if so, can't find it) something with the full text. Grr...at least prompting me to go look at the entry in the compendium has furnished me with some more googling terms. Apparently it's called "Towards a definition of the Perfect Crime" and, as I suspected, was done by the oulipopo rather than the oulipo proper. comment:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.49877-757254 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:38:49 -0800 juv3nal