ATD: expanded ToC
Jasper Fidget
jasper at fastmail.fm
Fri Dec 22 17:51:54 CST 2006
This seems very useful. Perhaps we can get it onto a website somewhere
-- any volunteers? Is the wiki appropriate? Thanks for your hard work,
Monte.
Monte Davis wrote:
>
> I've prepared an expanded table of contents. It lists the opening
> words and page# for each of the 70 "chapters" -- blocks beginning with
> a large gray capital letter, to which I've assigned serial numbers.
> Within those, it lists the opening words and page# for the "quick
> cuts" -- segments beginning with a two-line break and small caps.
>
> It looks like this in tabbed columns (you may need to turn off word
> wrap):
>
> *Three: Bilocations*
>
> 32. While the/ Inconvenience/ was in New York, Lindsay... 431
> 32.2 “Now, set the Special Desert Detail....Secure hatches...” 434
> 32.3 That evening as the/ Inconvenience/ soared… 443
> 32.4 Appearing these days in the infant science of... 445
> 33. The day Dally left for New York, Merle... 449
> 33.2 One day under a sky of a certain almost-familiar shade... 451
> 33.3 Next afternoon the light took its deep yellowish turn... 455
> 33.4 One day there was a flurry of rumors that...Minkowski 458
> 34. Frank came one day back over into West Texas… 460
>
> It runs 11 pages single-spaced, a 100K MS Word document. I'm finding
> it helpful in understanding the book's pacing and its switchers among
> story lines. Copies e-mailed on request.
>
> Monte Davis
> _monte.davis at verizon.net_
> _http://montedavis.livejournal.com/_
>
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