Combinatorial rather than ordinal significance

I’ve been thinking about how the relationships between appreciations, rather than the appreciations themselves, can have a tremendous impact on the story being told. For example, instead of worrying about which variation the Throughline UA / Catalyst falls into, a much more important factor is what kind of relationship the UA and CF appreciations have to each other or what kind of relationship the UA and Issue have to each other. These organized combinations of appreciations are far more important than the appreciations in isolation.

Am I totally off base here?

To really stretch the idea, perhaps these organized combinations of appreciations are comparable to Jungian complexes

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I agree that the story points become clearer in triangulating the ‘unknown’ that exists between them. This is essentially the point of the storyform in the first place.

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