Even if we were to allow that the story can be described on one dimension over time: Real stories do not have one arc. A lone melody works on one dimension als

Even if we were to allow that the story can be described on one dimension over time: Real stories do not have one arc. A lone melody works on one dimension also: Absolute rises and falls.. This can be pleasing but is limited in it expressiveness. Add another note however, and you get another kind of rise and fall: Relative. One note is falling, but the other note is falling faster. One note rises while the other note falls, but then later falls when the other rises.. Now add a third note, and you start to get to hint and deceive where each note will go, fulfilling and violating expectations. Now that sounds like a real story.