Text, narrative, and control Og the caveman awoke from uneasy dreams to discover that he was in a narrative.
Narratives are one-dimensional.
We speak of the narrative thread, using as a metaphor an archetypal one-dimensional object. Text pages are two-dimensional out of convenience, the conventional margins serving as the skytale around which the text winds, but without the steganography a second dimension might provide. Metaphorical 2D It is only when we attempt to construct meaning from narrative that a second dimension of association and metaphor appears. Yet the second dimension is tenuous, no matter how fastidiously the writer clothes his narrative in metaphor. Suppose you hadn't read Kafka.