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John Cayley wrote: > In writing some prose recently I was trying to find an adjective to > describe those reusable, renewable linguistic elements of a text -- > sensible to the (re)writer as raw material -- those manifold elements of a > text which make it 'scriptible' (writerly) in Barthes' terms > do you have any suggetions? Still like Repsyching for the whole process, but it's too corny for "serious literary consideration" so: extractive seems to me to fit quite well, "The extractive elements of the text", carrying the ideas of excerpting, taking out with force which this method often does to the original text??, and distillation, since the method would almost always tend to "condensare". Cheers, Pete. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%