I am trying to answer a lot of these questions based on the idea of software literacy - so do we understand books using diagrams connecting pages and paragraphs

I am trying to answer a lot of these questions based on the idea of software literacy - so do we understand books using diagrams connecting pages and paragraphs? No, maybe concepts, maybe characters, but in the main any diagram involving time plus more than one other dimension has never been successfully written in a flat piece of paper. Edit: another way of thinking about time is mutability so perhaps functional languages are more amenable to graphing.