"The narrative snowball of Marvel - the way that everything accumulates - means it gets bigger and more popular but also more unwieldy," he says.
At BIOS, Plumley says, students "give weekly seminars, and we teach them to get their data into a format they can present in real-time, rather than just letting everything accumulate".
Everything had accumulated over a month.
"It will take back everything we accumulated yesterday".
I think I was so horrified by this that the character of Titus is in a way a personal response to that," says Auster, who feels the Grossman's tragedy was perhaps "the central event of the book around which everything else accumulated".
And yes, it is frustrating that the economic crisis is redounding to the political benefit of people who have been wrong about absolutely everything, whereas people like me may not have been right about everything, but have accumulated a pretty darn good track record over the past 5 years.
It only mattered that I get it as right as I possibly could for them, while using everything I had accumulated, over my then 34 years, that would fit.
Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research won wide notice a couple of years ago for his "life-logging," which involved putting everything he had accumulated, written, photographed, presented and owns (like CDs) into what he called his "local cyberspace".
That's because there wasn't much to treasure in everything that had accumulated since we moved in a dozen years ago.
If it took 30 or 40 years to fill a house, says Hulstrand, "you're not going to be able to get rid of everything that has accumulated there in a week or two -- at least not in a way that will leave everyone feeling satisfied that the job has been done right.'".
