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Narrative
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The perversity of the universe always tends toward a maximum.
Sometimes called "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives".
Generalization of Murphy's Law which, at some level, underwrites a huge percentage of TV plots, especially in comedy. The odds of something happening as the plot unfolds depends not on its actual likelihood, but on its potential for disaster.
One is generally left with the impression that the universe is controlled by a malevolent (or at least mischievious) deity -- some might say author -- who is obsessed with making your life as difficult and humiliating as possible.
Finagle's Law in storyland owes its existence more or less entirely to the Rule Of Drama.
Compare with the Rule of Cool in terms of how events may ignore the laws of physics, biology, good manners and others to a proportionate degree that the events in question serve the plot or otherwise catch the attention of the reader/viewer.
Expressions of Finagle's Law include:
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See also Hanlons Razor. No relation to Fingal's Quarry.
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