Metalepsis || Spacetime Curvature

 

  • Parallel lines meet

    A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points

  • A force can skew a framework such that entities that logically should not be able to meet, do.

  • Jumps across narrative levels

  • Analogous motifs in the storyline: the folding of space/time; time travel; telepathy

    Octavia Butler, Kindred

    Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

    Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • Analogous arrangements in narrative structure: Hofstadter’s “tangled hierarches”

    “Continuity of Parks,” Julio Cortázar