# How do network narratives tie separate lines together (accident, shared event, place, object, social tie, framing process, thematic parallel), and what do the sources say about coincidence?

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Across Bordwell's posts, lines of a network narrative are tied by (a) a shared event or accident, (b) a replayed event that becomes a convergence node, (c) a shared place presented as a "small world", (d) circulating objects, (e) social ties (kin, friends, acquaintances), (f) a large process or system used as frame, and, in Heat, (g) designed parallels. Chance is a recognised convention ("chance as hidden fate") that viewers can read; Bordwell notes audiences have learned to read criss-crossers, so directors innovate within conventions. The posts are festival and review writing, not a systematic study.

Across Bordwell's posts, lines of a network narrative are tied by (a) a shared event or accident, (b) a replayed event that becomes a convergence node, (c) a shared place presented as a "small world", (d) circulating objects, (e) social ties (kin, friends, acquaintances), (f) a large process or system used as frame, and, in Heat, (g) designed parallels. Chance is a recognised convention ("chance as hidden fate") that viewers can read; Bordwell notes audiences have learned to read criss-crossers, so directors innovate within conventions. The posts are festival and review writing, not a systematic study.

Curator qualifications: Curator located all evidence excerpts in the work copies (automated case-insensitive prefix match). The chance-as-convention vs coincidence-as-device tension is kept.

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```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2006/11/27/lessons-from-babel/",
      "note": "Heat post"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2010/10/11/seduced-by-structure/",
      "note": "Heat post"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2019/09/11/telling-the-big-story-network-narratives-at-venice-2019/",
      "note": "Heat post"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2022/08/23/heat-revisited/",
      "note": "Heat post"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Across Bordwell's posts, lines of a network narrative are tied by (a) a shared event or accident, (b) a replayed event that becomes a convergence node, (c) a shared place presented as a "small world", (d) circulating objects, (e) social ties (kin, friends, acquaintances), (f) a large process or system used as frame, and, in Heat, (g) designed parallels. Chance is a recognised convention ("chance as hidden fate") that viewers can read; Bordwell notes audiences have learned to read criss-crossers, so directors innovate within conventions. The posts are festival and review writing, not a systematic study. · locator: Heat post · source: https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2006/11/27/lessons-from-babel/

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