Speculating about how many unique, different stories really exist by thinking about what constitutes a story. Exploring tangents of epic novels, the 6 word story, Spiritual sequels as well as spiritual antithesis, Jungian archetypes, and Christopher Bookers the 7 basic plots. We look at questions and explore works like, Why do we tell stories? What is the shortest short story? What is the longest novel? What is the difference between Buck and White Fang in the Jack London novels Call of the Wild and White Fang and their relationship with Wolf Larsen and Humphrey Van Weyden in The Sea Wolf? What did Rene Magritte mean this is not a pipe (ceci n'est pas une pipe) in the treachery of images and how does it compare to Denis Diderot This is Not a Story (ceci n'est pas un conte) The word count of Henry Darger The Vivian Girls and the Realms of the Unreal. Franz Kafka's The Trial vs The Castle Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Possessed vs The Brothers Karamazov Lee Child The Hero Rick and Negan, Batman and the Joker, Thor and Loki, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and Cane and Abel are all examples of the hostile brothers archetype. Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus