At first, I was inclined to take this symmetry of phrasing as a clue, one that intimated something not about the architecture of the novel's plot but about the architecture of its prose.
One lengthy review constructs an elaborate analogy between the book's plot and the architecture of the Internet, and concludes that the book provides a "good high-level overview" of basic networking concepts.
Once the architecture of the rooms is planned, stories for each must be plotted.
What is the architecture of the building?
The architecture of the buildings is stunning.
It is masterful in the craft of its sentences, the architecture of its plot, the dexterity of its classical allusions.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of a near-history, "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", allege that Mr Brown copied the "architecture" of his plot from their book, which was first published in 1982.Lawyers for Mr Baigent and Mr Leigh argue that Mr Brown lifted central themes, such as the notion that Jesus founded a family with Mary Magdalene.
And of course one of the most popular iterations of the story is the beloved musical "West Side Story," which dispensed with Shakespeare's language but kept the fundamental architecture of the plot.
Instead of the blank essences of traditional fiction, he wants the subtle absences of the nouveau roman: instead of characters, he organizes his fictions around "symbolic centers"; instead of the architecture of plot, he attends to the fabric of form; instead of the management of reality, he prefers to liberate the sentence.
It was bound to find its form less in the conventional architecture of plot than in the symmetries of the narrator's inner world, the driving force of his desires, the selective harmonies of memory.
With all the suspects dead and no conclusive evidence, as yet, of any accomplices, investigators have been left to recreate the architecture and orchestration of the plot largely from the recorded minutiae of the hijackers' brief American lives: their cellphone calls, credit card charges, Internet communications and automated teller machine withdrawals.
