So, okay, there is story about narrative and attention span and print and Internet, and part of it goes like this: "'We experience our lives in narrative form,' says novelist Jonathan Franzen. 'If you can't order things in a narrative fashion, your life is a chaotic bowl of mush.'" That is not how I visualize my mind or my life at all! I thought we were all pretty convinced that there were freeway offramp pathways between topics, and filing cabinets of things that are filed next to associated things, instead of by some structured use of the alphabet or by some mental Dewey Decimal system. It is a strandy [...]