techniques for the flying author

techniques for non-literal meanings of ordered content:

very short, short, medium, long, very long.  backwards, intermittent, antonyms, purposeful misuse and combos of it all; structure; begin and end. and more.

This doesn't include (other?) proper literary techinuques such as allusions, metaphors, references, spoonerisms etc. (I still haven't read the book, oxford conise dictionary of literary terms soon though, trust your humble narrator)

so for example, the first line of moby dick, "Call me Ishamel." could be seen in a manifold of non literal ways.

I find it easiest to start with assuming that one of the author's conciets is that we will look at the prose as if it's poetry so there should be line breaks.  In this instance the first line break could come after "call" which if taken in context of when the book was written could be seen as anticipating the future of communication being centered around the calling people on the telephone so then the 2nd line would the caveman or tarzan line, "me ishamel" which then combined with the 1st line has a dynamic of describing the author's present in terms that readers in the future will find insightful.  you can jump ahead then and look at chapters in relation to each other in a similiar way as the parsing of the 3 words in the first sentence. 

my surmation is that people are more familiar with looking at things backwards for esoteric meanings.  the classic album call the doctor is fun to look at.  c.t.d is the abbrevation which if reveresed is d.t.c. the T of course looks similiar to the cross that nearly everybody in this country knows is where jesus of nazara died. so then you'd have d.c., possibly as in washington d.c. with the cross in the middle and since the album was part of what i remember being refered to as queer punk it seems there might be quite the spiked punch when one gets their stephoscope out.