Metalepsis || Spacetime Curvature (Copy)

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