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The Golden Arc Program: Story as a Committed Wave

This paper states, in brief, a research program developed across three companion papers. The model: narrative is a signed waveform of dramatic charge whose decisive structural point is not the climax but the fold, the moment the space of possible endings closes, and one recursive...

The Golden Arc Program: Story as a Committed Wave

This paper states, in brief, a research program developed across three companion papers. The model: narrative is a signed waveform of dramatic charge whose decisive structural point is not the climax but the fold, the moment the space of possible endings closes, and one recursive...

The Causal Fold: A Scoring Protocol and Four Worked Cases

The Fold Against the Null established that sentiment-based measurement sees a story's settling tail, not its causal fold, leaving the parent model's central claim, that the space of narrative possibility closes near the golden section, untested at the observable it actually names...