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Cut-in and Cut-out, Import and Export, Up- and Downloading become basic operations of net-work-writing. The linear organizational forms of the book culture (like consecutive pages, hierarchical branching structures) are replaced by labyrinthine nestings. Such nesting techniques are already to be found in the geometrical structures of verbal story-telling forms - 1001 Nights, the Iliad - as technical memory aids, or in complex literary works where they reflect the process of writing itself: In Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu", during the course of years of writing, the memory processes - of the author mirrored in his work - literally outgrow the bounds of the book to be written: When the first proofs are available for correction, additions and explanations are also undertaken here to the extent that the surface dimensions of the page are overflowed. Lacking a computer, his only remaining recourse is the practical advice of his housekeeper, who sews fold-out paper streamers to the edges of the book (up to 1.40 metres long)