Another approach that has anecdotally been successful at several institutions is to present copied fragments of the notes in a different color from the rest of the text.
Until now, only fragments of that note -- contents of which were apparently misreported -- were made public.
What transformed the essay of 1928 into the thousand-page midden of notes, fragments, and quotations that Benjamin left behind at his death, and that was published in 1999 under the title "The Arcades Project"?
Figure 21 Row and column histograms for two differently tagged fragments of a half-note.
The Unabomber Manifesto consistently uses "we" and "our" throughout, and at one point in 1993 investigators sought an individual whose first name was "Nathan", due to a fragment of a note found in one of the bombs.
As several critics noted on the release of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, assembled from piles of notes and fragments after the author took his own life in 2008, the value and fascination of the book lay as much in what it revealed about the author's mind at work as in the work that resulted.
A late efflorescence of modernist experiment replete with lists, queer syllabi, repartee, feuilletons, snarkfests, fragments of plays, poems, mash notes to stars and ruthless anatomies of queer melancholy, McCourt's book offers an original, if mandarin, cultural history, disquisitions on film, sorties into literary criticism and, indirectly, a scintillating and elusive memoir.
At one point in "The Pale King," a fertilizer bomb does go off outside an I.R.S. building, though a fragment included in a section of "Notes and Asides" suggests it might have just been a load of fertilizer.
Varese builds on this base with wildly variegated fragments of his own music (note the signature police siren) along with bits of "Yankee Doodle" or Beethoven.
