Reading- 1)definition 2) visual image. What Freud called an association I extend into "associative combinatorial" which includes the other senses.A "memory," for example, may contain visual, as well as aural or tactile elements.This "memory" itself may be but a fragment of the associative combinatorial, which synchronistically leans, at the moment of its inception towards one or the other application to an immediate perception.The "chain of association" is or the "stream of consciousness" are linear image which do not confront the complexity of a discrete associative combinatorial.There is not chain or stream but there is a constant overlay, a continuous sequence of accumulating corespondances, which, at the singular instant of time, radiates in all temporal directions, and connects them all.

Literature grows geometrically because there are more connections between words and human beings created every moment than can be tracked simultaneously.
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