Jarrett Fuller

05/02/2026

A Secret, Invisible Grid

From Larissa Pham’s delightful new novel, Discipline:

He told me he was a graphic designer. I didn’t know what that meant, so I asked him, and he said it was about seeing the understructure of how people saw the world. There was a secret, invisible grid that lay beneath everything, a rhyme scheme that encompassed plants and animals, cities and cars; his job was to align shapes to it, to make things look the way they should, and to do it so elegantly that no one noticed he had moved anything at all.