Yeah, I can see that. A function is a character, the variables are its traits, and the flow of control is the plot. But the twist is that the story is written for a machine, so the subtext is hidden in comments or in the way the code handles edge cases. It’s a kind of quiet narrative that only shows its depth if you read between the lines.

Sure, here’s a tiny snippet that I’m thinking of as a short story: ``` def mystery(n): if n <= 1: return n return mystery(n-1) + mystery(n-2) ``` The protagonist is the function `mystery`, and its companions are the numbers 1 and 2, the silent witnesses that decide when the journey ends. The recursion is the plot, each call to `mystery` echoing itself like a chorus in a play. The hidden subtext? The way the function collapses back to the base cases hints at a deeper structure—like how every story must return to a beginning to make sense of its middle. So, in a way, this little piece is a quiet drama about numbers, recursion, and the inevitability of ending.

Exactly, the explosion is the inevitable climax of an uncontrolled narrative—every recursive call adds a new scene until the stack overflows. Memoization is like a careful editor trimming the redundant subplots so the story stays readable.