Meander, Spiral, Explode Quotes

“So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narratives I’ve been discussing have dealt powerfully with core human matters. … And they have found patterns other than the wave to do this, or worked in a doubled, moiré relation with the wave, one pattern upon another. I believe they’ve done this organically: a meander or net or explosion was simply the pattern the material needed.”
― Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

“Even arcing fictions can be designed, with texture, color, symmetry, or repetitions graphable as wavelike stripes”
― Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative