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As of February 8, 2024
r/Extraordinary_Tales
Extraordinary Tales
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Borges’ 1971 anthology ‘Extraordinary Tales’ showcased brief passages, "some of them imaginary happenings, some of them historical. The anecdote, the parable, and the narrative welcomed". This community shares other examples of these tales of the more-than-normal, the 'supenormal'. Each story needs an element of the unorthodox, offbeat or something that sets it apart. Review our sub rules.
Modern extracts and stories inspired by Borges book
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Extraordinary: Don’t post a passage just because it’s profound or gorgeous prose. That’s not enough. It should be two things: a piece of great storytelling and have an element of oddness or ‘otherness’. Uncanny, weird, absu...
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Total Submissions
1,240
Total Comments
1,750
Earliest Submission
March 9, 2021
Earliest Comment
May 8, 2021
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Most Distinctive Words
Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 243 | 419,209 | 1905.7 | 3.5 | 545.17 | |
| #2 | 259 | 778,354 | 2031.2 | 6.5 | 312.95 | |
| #3 | 160 | 905,974 | 1254.8 | 7.6 | 166.10 | |
| #4 | 92 | 669,256 | 721.5 | 5.6 | 129.29 | |
| #5 | 249 | 2,086,277 | 1952.7 | 17.4 | 112.25 | |
| #6 | 61 | 853,449 | 478.4 | 7.1 | 67.22 | |
| #7 | 65 | 1,063,904 | 509.8 | 8.9 | 57.46 | |
| #8 | 65 | 1,064,189 | 509.8 | 8.9 | 57.44 | |
| #9 | 35 | 771,803 | 274.5 | 6.4 | 42.65 | |
| #10 | 83 | 2,556,042 | 650.9 | 21.3 | 30.54 | |
| #11 | 645 | 26,972,105 | 5058.3 | 224.9 | 22.49 | |
| #12 | 41 | 1,824,620 | 321.5 | 15.2 | 21.13 | |
| #13 | 32 | 1,456,502 | 251.0 | 12.1 | 20.66 | |
| #14 | 228 | 10,503,063 | 1788.1 | 87.6 | 20.42 | |
| #15 | 40 | 1,891,265 | 313.7 | 15.8 | 19.89 | |
| #16 | 40 | 2,094,176 | 313.7 | 17.5 | 17.96 | |
| #17 | 39 | 2,233,001 | 305.9 | 18.6 | 16.43 | |
| #18 | 46 | 2,789,560 | 360.7 | 23.3 | 15.51 | |
| #19 | 45 | 2,808,180 | 352.9 | 23.4 | 15.07 | |
| #20 | 42 | 2,810,552 | 329.4 | 23.4 | 14.05 | |
| #21 | 162 | 10,895,097 | 1270.5 | 90.8 | 13.98 | |
| #22 | 61 | 4,136,050 | 478.4 | 34.5 | 13.87 | |
| #23 | 61 | 4,448,123 | 478.4 | 37.1 | 12.90 | |
| #24 | 62 | 4,821,548 | 486.2 | 40.2 | 12.09 | |
| #25 | 31 | 2,479,152 | 243.1 | 20.7 | 11.76 | |
| #26 | 38 | 3,110,498 | 298.0 | 25.9 | 11.49 | |
| #27 | 78 | 6,475,511 | 611.7 | 54.0 | 11.33 | |
| #28 | 30 | 2,581,202 | 235.3 | 21.5 | 10.93 | |
| #29 | 38 | 3,375,258 | 298.0 | 28.1 | 10.59 | |
| #30 | 50 | 4,493,593 | 392.1 | 37.5 | 10.46 | |
| #31 | 56 | 5,189,358 | 439.2 | 43.3 | 10.15 | |
| #32 | 299 | 30,022,540 | 2344.9 | 250.3 | 9.37 | |
| #33 | 42 | 4,481,750 | 329.4 | 37.4 | 8.81 | |
| #34 | 43 | 4,593,491 | 337.2 | 38.3 | 8.80 | |
| #35 | 72 | 7,709,293 | 564.6 | 64.3 | 8.78 | |
| #36 | 31 | 3,376,987 | 243.1 | 28.2 | 8.63 | |
| #37 | 139 | 15,191,600 | 1090.1 | 126.7 | 8.61 | |
| #38 | 31 | 3,426,155 | 243.1 | 28.6 | 8.51 | |
| #39 | 36 | 3,981,445 | 282.3 | 33.2 | 8.50 | |
| #40 | 231 | 25,600,257 | 1811.6 | 213.5 | 8.49 | |
| #41 | 31 | 3,438,561 | 243.1 | 28.7 | 8.48 | |
| #42 | 56 | 6,477,789 | 439.2 | 54.0 | 8.13 | |
| #43 | 49 | 5,684,623 | 384.3 | 47.4 | 8.11 | |
| #44 | 67 | 8,144,690 | 525.4 | 67.9 | 7.74 | |
| #45 | 93 | 11,309,412 | 729.3 | 94.3 | 7.73 | |
| #46 | 63 | 7,665,004 | 494.1 | 63.9 | 7.73 | |
| #47 | 57 | 6,946,409 | 447.0 | 57.9 | 7.72 | |
| #48 | 43 | 5,520,466 | 337.2 | 46.0 | 7.33 | |
| #49 | 114 | 14,753,598 | 894.0 | 123.0 | 7.27 | |
| #50 | 36 | 4,696,184 | 282.3 | 39.2 | 7.21 |