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30 August 2025

  • curprev 14:4714:47, 30 August 2025 Sdhjk talk contribs 1,426 bytes +1,426 Created page with "{{Stub}} In the fabled hall of Plot Devices the '''MacGuffin''', or McGuffin, is the ''central'' device, on the stone pedestal surrounded by traps. This is such an object or, perhaps, person which motivates people in a story to go hunt for it and/or move it around; but in of itself is largely irrelevant to said story. The classic example is the Maltese Falcon from the 1930 book ''The Maltese Falcon'', a statue of a bird which a bunch of people want to acqui..."