Proust

Posted by Foolness
Sep 6, 2012 at 02:15 PM

I don’t know Proust myself but the rambling wasn’t focusing on Proust as Proust but on the french style of capturing order from outlines.

Notable statement in the topic - “I’m speaking of getting “law and order” into your previous associative thinking, and I say, look upon these endless French essays in order to have fine examples how reading is hampered when authors do NOT bother to sectionalize their thoughts after thinking, for the recipients’ sake.”

The Python Joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g

The Google of Proust: http://www.proustguide.com/ProustSITE/Pages/Summarizeproust.htm

The idea does worth warranting an essay IMO as it pertains to “outliner theory” as it may. In fact, it cannot be said that the rambling was close to a French essay I assume though I have no knowledge of it.

Mind you, this is my own guess on the subject either and you’ll have to wait for the actual recipients to respond.

If it’s still confusing, you can think of it from the idea of outlining a grand fictional novel on par with the Bible only without the time skips and the allowances of modern novel writing.

If you were trying to make such a lengthy summary of such a novel using a particular outliner software, how would you “design” your outline to that particular outliner software in such a way that in actuality what you have is a file whose sections make sense not only to you but to other people hence the point being that the outliner design does help you with your outline on a falsifiable basis rather than on a subjective desire towards a particular outliner software: two-pane, one-pane, etc.