-Titles are doing are lot more work here than we're used to. What kind of book is it in which every page has a title? (Well it isn't a book at all but what kind of a story...?) I think the pages where the title and the body are the same word/s are meant to show us that all the titles are more descriptive, albeit sometimes cryptically, of the body than in most literature. The absence of page numbers further invests the titles as our only reference points. Even though there aren't page numbers there are still some embedded numbered sequences meant to show linear progressions. There is also numbering that isn't linear and just seems to be a grouping technique. In one of the meatiest meta moments he talks about anchors. Really cool and original things going on here with the anchoring.

- My first path through was basically lined up with Peter's slow reconstruction of what might have happened to his ex-wife and kid. This meant that both Peter and I were piecing together the narrative at the same time. We were in the same boat. It was the dominant aspect of my reading experience and yet it blows my mind to think that I just as easily could have taken a different path in which this phenomena would never have occured.

- i love the antonioni film references but i wonder why he doesnt say anything about L'Avventura. That movie shares some storytelling qualities with Afternoon even more than Blow Up.

-"I'm not sure that I have a story. And, if I do, I'm not sure that everything isn't my story, or that, whatever is my story, is anything more than pieces of other stories." me*

-"I kept wanting to change the facts, not just the way things happened, but in what order"

-For all your supposed variations you've written nothing but the same old patterns: the wooden wife, the receptive whore, the all-accepting female mind!" gift of hearing

- all the women have offices and we all have machines. people seem less and less apt--less able--to remember.

speak memory. This gets the future (which is us) pretty well doesn't it. Here are so many of the thigns we've been talking about. I think imagining information technologies as marching towards a point where we generate/perceive (output/input) the content in the same way we listen to Bach is a really useful idea. Does new media allow us to think in concertos? Is the novel like a playing a solo violin? the internet like conducting an orchestra?

-lastly, i found this thing just ate up hours like it was me on the internet. all my internet addiction readership tools totally transferred and this might as well have been a stroll down the ol' bookmark lane.