Tonight we sink into slumber with the fundamental structures of dramatic storytelling, as defined in mind-numbing detail by Aristotle in his "Poetics". It's the perfect plot for sleep.

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Music: "earth 2 earth," PCIII is licensed under CC BY (freemusicarchive.org)