Marvin Claims Blueberry Field Contains Multiple Embedded Narratives

After Marvin alleged that the blueberry field contains parallel timelines, symbolic clustering, and at least one suppressed subplot, the sheep were forced into another exhausting inquiry.

The sheep were once again asked to take Marvin seriously after he claimed the blueberry field now contains “multiple embedded narratives,” including a tariff arc, an immigration arc, a war arc, and what he described as “a judiciary subplot buried deep in the row spacing.” He said the bushes should no longer be understood as agriculture, but as “a living document of national decline with berries.” This came just days after the administration defended the war in Iran before Congress, pushed a House plan for $70 billion more in immigration enforcement, and continued scrambling to replace tariffs the Supreme Court had already struck down. Marvin said the field had “responded accordingly.”

Standing near the far rows with the troubled authority of a farmer who has recently become too fluent in irrigation symbolism, Marvin explained that one section of bushes represented the administration’s war posture because “it looks dramatic, expensive, and no one can explain how it ends.” Another section, he said, clearly represented immigration policy because it was “over-patrolled, under-explained, and aggressively funded.” A patch near the orchard, meanwhile, was said to represent Trump’s tariff strategy because it had “already been ruled structurally unsound but continues to reappear in altered form.” Fancy Pants responded by reminding the flock that the field is a field, not a policy memo disguised as fruit.

Janet demanded that Marvin define “embedded narrative” in writing, at which point he produced six damp pages and a hand-drawn diagram titled “Berry-Based Indicators of Executive Overreach.” Simone called the theory unserious, but admitted one corner of the field had lately felt “litigation-adjacent.” Whitney described the rows as “psychically congested by federal overreach.” Bruce and Frankie escalated matters by claiming the field also contains a midterm subplot, a constitutional B-story, and “something very detention-coded near the drip lines.”

The sheep said the real problem is that Marvin is wrong often enough to be exhausting, but right often enough to ruin everyone’s afternoon. By sunset, the flock had agreed to review his findings, mostly because no one wanted to sit through another three-hour presentation titled “The Berry Has a Memory.”