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Vonnegut is not saying there are only 8 possible shapes, he is just graphing some examples.

This is correct. His actual thesis has 28 example story shapes.

I thought the same. Sloppy editing. If you watch the included video, the graph that Vonnegut draws for Cinderella starts below the B/E axis, not above like the New Testament.

Ah that makes sense wrt the story arc for cinderella. Thanks. I instinctively ignore everything that looks like a video when reading articles.

in this case it's the best part of the article, they also unfortunately cut the video.

I suspect the author wanted you to notice the similarity between 7 and 8 when you got to them, not at the beginning of the article.

Hamlet would graph as a straight line along the Beginning-Entropy axis.