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ehnto ◴[] No.45081391[source]
Someone I know speaks in a reverse tree of sorts which actually does resemble a "weave", they start with various statements about the topic at hand without ever mentioning the topic, and eventually arrive at stating the topic near the end (hopefully). Sometimes I have no idea what they are talking about because they forgot to mention it until the very end when they have merged all their branches.
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iamben ◴[] No.45082345[source]
When it all merges, the payoff feels great. I'm a big fan of when it's used in comedy - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy)
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stavros ◴[] No.45082671[source]
Yeah but a callback is just a reference to a previous joke, not a tying together of unrelated points. Does the latter have a name? It seems so hard that I can't remember seeing it much.
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1. quuxplusone ◴[] No.45082807[source]
It's the third beat (final stage) of the Harold, for what that's worth.

https://wiki.improvresourcecenter.com/index.php?title=Harold