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..for retracing the myriad paths of a conversation.

any ideas?

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

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

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


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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.

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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.

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm

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.

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Yup. Or something like that.

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

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Mind mazes, labyrinths.

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