a roostertail of alibis

Larry Kusche's Popcorn Cookery 

There’s a world inside the world. We’re all members of it, we’re all part of the mystery. But we don't know the name of the mystery. We don't know the code. We're like cells in a body that doesn't know it's a body. We’re part of a pattern we can’t see. Everything is connected, Lee. Everything is part of a larger design.

A plot is like a cell that starts to multiply for no reason. It doesn't follow the laws of the rest of the body. It creates its own laws. It builds its own blood supply. It becomes a world within a world. And eventually, the host dies so the plot can live. That’s the irony of biology, Lee. The most successful organisms are the ones that kill the thing they live in.