This is just patently, demonstrably false. Words' meanings change and shift with time, and there are clearly many who now accept and embrace the difference between these two concepts.Д«ecause it's pretty clear that stories involve causality. Whether it's inherent is entirely irrelevant. There's nothing inherent in the words or their usage, colloquially or academically, that would admit that distinction. Well, good thing I just gave you two examples of noteworthy people (including arguably the greatest filmmaker of all time) who did exactly that. I will simply say that I have never read or heard anyone assert or accept this credibly. Again, Forster is simply aggrandising his craft as 'more than mere storytelling'. You could replace both instances of 'plot' with 'story' in the above, and do no harm whatever to the meaning. Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence, part of the mind must be left behind, brooding, while the other part goes marching on. This allows the novelist to delay explanations and introduce human mystery to the narrative. In the Trinity College lectures, which were subsequently published as Aspects of the Novel, Forster went on:ДЄ plot demands intelligence and memory on the part of the reader, to remember incidents and create connecting threads between them. This is not a difference of kind but of 'importance'.

The basis of a novel is a story - the narration of events in the order they happened - but storytelling alone can never produce a great novel. Forster is just aggrandising the craft of the novelist (the subject of the lecture from which you pulled that quote) as more than 'mere storytelling' But this is clearly insupportable, because it's pretty clear that stories involve causality. He's simply suggesting that a 'mere story' is a mere sequence of events ('x then y') while a 'complex story' (plot) involves causal relationships. Without throwing credentials, which would be pointless, I will simply say that I have never read or heard anyone assert or accept this credibly.ДЇorster's distinction is arbitrary. it's been long accepted in writing circles that there is an important distinction between the two.

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