stories are code, code is lore 

As a part of my current work on an instrument to help tell stories better. I’ve been reading a lot of books that contain the incantation of the form the book takes. The two most recent 

Goodnight Tokyo – Atsuhiro Yoshida
Afterword explains how the “ten stories” fit together into one night’s narrative and why recurring characters connect across chapters.  The film Crash fits this form as well. 

We Computers: A Ghazal Novel – Hamid Ismailov
Opens with a “Note on the Ghazal Form,” explaining that each chapter is a bayt (couplet), mirroring the structure of a traditional ghazal wrapped in modern day AI.