You can call the pattern cellular if you focus on the shapes (bubbles, chips of bark); or you can focus on the lines defining those shapes and call the pattern nodular, a network. Either way, the look’s about the same: polygons in a plain. The pattern is a field, not a shape made by a single line, like a meander or spiral. The relevance for narrative? Some texts don’t give you a line to follow, however loopy or coiling. They don’t give you a hot core around which to circle, either. Instead, you gaze upon many segments, or a web. Instead of following a line of story, your brain draws the lines,
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