How Narrative Can, and Can't, or Can't Easily, Communicate Complexity

Literary storytelling can easily digest some kinds of complexity, and convey them in their complexity to the reader without the reader necessarily even being aware that cognitive heavy-lifting is being done. But other kinds resist the linear sequencing of narrative almost completely, or require sly and oblique strategies. A swift lunchtime tour of an ad hoc taxonomy, based on FS's experience as both writer and reader.