Which is why, in artworks that depend on chronology for their expression, one cannot remove some section, however small, without undermining the integrity of the whole. It is not so much that the audience or reader will miss some piece of information vital to the plot (though this can also happen) but that the incantatory effect of art, which is related to the Aristotelean principle of suspension of disbelief, is inextricable from the form or style of the work, which should be viscous in character, meaning not comprised of bricks that can be easily separated and moved around.