Synecdoche is a simplicity that doesn’t lie. When offered for its own sake, simplicity aims at denial. Whether as argument or explanation, as bipartite politics or binary code, as faith or science, reason or God, as historical narrative, as form, content, Tarot card reading, as sports commentary or product review, simplicity shelters us from the terror of complexity. Synecdoche gives us hope. Without overwhelming us, it offers an implied surplus: there is more, unknowable today, which tomorrow we may draw into the frame.