Introduction

A Memo on Memos

A Memo on Millenniums

A Memo on the Literary

A Memo on the Digital

A Memo on Creative Practice

A Memo on Writers

Chapter I

First Memo: Lightness

First Digression: Contemporary Weight

Hybrid Realism vs. Hysterical Realism

Narratorial Omniscience and Cliche

Controlled Little Gasps

Beyond Maximalism

Creative Practice: WHALEFALL, Taroko Gorge, Most Powerful Words, The Data Souls.

Chapter II

Second Memo: Quickness

Second Digression: Lingering Interactivity

Hypertext and the (impression of the) Infinite

The Mark of the Digital

Beyond the Digital/Print Nexus

Creative Practice: The Gathering Cloud, Paige & Powe.

Chapter III

Third Memo: Exactitude

Third Digression: Relentless Precision

Aestheticism

Stream-of-Consciousness Exactitude

An Exact Ideal text

Beyond Precision

Creative Practice: A Dictionary of the Revolution, Little Emperor Syndrome.

Chapter IV

Fourth Memo: Visibility

Fourth Digression: Ekphrastic Strategies

Text/Image Relations

Visibility and ‘Realism’

Digital Visibility Possibilities

Beyond Ekphrastic Despair

Creative Practice: Life After Wartime, novelling, The Buoy, The Boat, The Vine and the Fish, Voices, A Recombinant History of Australian Camels.

Chapter V

Fifth Memo: Multiplicity

Fifth Digression: Ethical Associations

Paranoid Imagination and the Influence of Kafka

Information and the Novel

Consistency

Beyond Paranoia

Creative Practice: “The V[R]erses”: An XR Story Series, The Library of Nonhuman Books, The Perfect Democracy

Conclusion

Beyond the Memos

Beyond the Millennium

Beyond the Literary

Beyond the Digital

Beyond Creative Practice

Beyond Writers

Appendices

Appendix A: Description of Most Powerful Words

Appendix B: Description of The Data Souls

Appendix C: Quotations opening A Condensed History of Australian Camels

Appendix D: Quotations opening The Perfect Democracy