exformation
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coined by Danish science writer Tor Nørretranders in his book The User Illusion published in English 1998; meant to mean "explicitly discarded information"
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exformation
Because, of course, great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communications theorists sometimes call exformation, which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.
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7 years, 2 months ago
defined as "not giving all the information needed to make sense of something and leaving it up to the reader to think about how this might work"; a common strategy of DFW's
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7 years, 8 months ago