What Pan's Labyrinth Teaches About Layered Narrative
Two worlds — fairy tale and war — interleave without merging sloppily.
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Del Toro intercuts fantasy and fascist Spain with disciplined pacing. Documentation can layer similarly: user story above, ADR below, runbook beneath — each readable alone, coherent together.
Craft: do not confuse metaphor in prose with ambiguity in specs. Stories may be symbolic; APIs may not.
