Motion is happening in our minds.
Jane Alison, 9. Networks and Cells in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison, 9. Networks and Cells in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
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Motion is happening in our minds.
Jane Alison, 9. Networks and Cells in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative  Already I grow semi-conscious of depths beyond the surface, yet not by way of metaphor, as there's almost no figurative language:
Jane Alison, 9. Networks and Cells in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative  The questions a spatial narrative asks are not "what happens next?" but "why did this happen?" and, more complexly, "what grows in my mind as I read?"
Jane Alison, 9. Networks and Cells in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative  I think the idea of spatiality becomes most clear in cellular texts made of discrete parts that gain power through patterns of images or ideas rather than sequential incidents.
Jane Alison, 9. Networks and Cells in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative  Any literary narrative of depth asks your brain to pull threads across the whole, so, in a sense, all complex narratives are networks; your experience moving through them is never purely linear, but volumetric or spatial as your thoughts bounce across passages.
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