FWIW, I pretty much read the glass bead game in The Glass Bead Game to be literature as Literature (or even L̴̛̪̻̙͆̊i̸̟̯̻̼̬̍͋́̓ṭ̷̣̉̂̑͗ę̴̟̝̩̞̃̍r̷̨̧̘̪̈a̶̧̤̤̍t̴̢͓̳͓̒͊u̶̹̘̯͕̓̊͠ͅr̴̲̺̤̋̽͠e̴̬͝) with "plays" consisting of references and meta-'s in all manner of domains. Sort of like metamemers go to the Opera?

Glass bead arrangements (and rearrangements) as Beautiful Aperiodic Crystals of Harmony?