..for retracing the myriad paths of a conversation.

any ideas?

(yes, dale, we all know about the reverse dictionary.)

Reconstruct?

I was thinking confabulation/confabulating, but that may be only a medical usage.

There is fabulation, but that's not quite it. It was a tendency in th Nouveaux Roman, especially the early ones of Robbe-Grillet.

Um--I think confabulation is just to talk. The other def. seems to be to fill in memory gaps with imagination.

retracing the myriad paths of a conversation
to me would be something like this: you told me how good I look, then I said my hairstylist is a wonder, and then you said speaking of wonders, my daughter's getting straight A's in school...etc.

Main Entry: con·fab·u·la·tion
1 a : familiar talk : CONVERSATION ; also : CHAT b : CONFERENCE, DISCUSSION
2 : a filling in of gaps in memory by free fabrication (as in Korsakoff's syndrome) [W3]

but as I said, 2) is more of a medical usage.

Plus it sounds like it means making things up to make sense of seemingly disparate memories.

Edit:

Yup. Or something like that.

I read a book once on mind maps - the myriads paths of thought.

Mind mazes, labyrinths.

Avy! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!! How are you?

I'm fine Jackie. Thanks

I'm fine Jackie. Thanks ---- ooops! .