parallel timelines resulting from either our actions or the actions of others.

contexture, n Etymology: < French contexture (Montaigne, 1572–80), = Italian contestura (Florio), probably representing a medieval Latin *contextūra , < context– participial stem of contexĕre : compare Latin textūra texture n. Very common in 17th cent.; now rare. 1.  a. The action or process of weaving together or intertwining; the fact of being woven together; the manner in which this is done, texture.  [….] 2.  a. transferred. The linking together of materials or elements, so as to form a connected structure (natural or artificial); the manner in which the parts of a thing are thus united.  […] 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §14 Without this there cannot be imagined any concourse of Atoms at all, much less any such contexture of bodyes out of them.  [….] b. figurative of things non-material. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros’d i. 29 The Roman Church, having by a regular Contexture of continued Policy..interwoven itself with the Secular Interest. [….] 3. The structure, composition, or texture of anything made up by the combination of elements. Now chiefly figurative from 1.  [….] 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. vii. 59 Women are of a nice Contexture, and our Spirits when disordered are not to be recomposed in a Moment.  [….] 4.  That which is put together or constructed by the intertwining of parts. a. quasi-concrete. A mass of things interwoven together.  [….] 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 491 The Corpus Callosum is nothing but a Contexture of small Fibres.  [….] b. An interwoven structure, a fabric.  [….] 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 17 How many thousand parts of Matter must go to make up this heterogeneous Contexture? [….] 5.  a. The weaving together of words, sentences, etc. in connected composition; the construction or composition of a writing as consisting of connected and coherent members.  […] b. The connected structure or ‘body’ of a literary composition; a connected passage or composition. c. = context n. 4.  [OED second edition (1989)] The first four definitions relate to weaving in material and immaterial forms.  Only the fifth definition relates to writing or literary composition … but that’s where the confusion comes in.  A common interpretation associates context with text (as in language), rather than with texture (as with weaving).