Old moo 2 New moo

Browsing the noosphere I found out over at TerraNova that an old book of which ive only read excerpts is now freeasinfree so I took the time to read it during last weeks slew of travel around Europe to various conferences [which were a blast]. The one thing that had stuck with me way back in the when was first of course the story of Bungle. But the second and stronger impression I carried with me the last decade or so was the movement between the voice of “The_Author” in its now retro screenfont and the rest of the exposition. I have thought for awhile that the old list of literary tropes might have to be updated or reexamined a little more in the light of such moo-ly and mud-ly constructed texts. For example, it could be merely an allegory, but its more as if it is a logfile of a conversation. So do we have to make the actual conversation between the entities in the text the focus of any comparative literary analysis, or is a logfile its own? Ala Joyce, is he modern because of his choice of a logfile format to describe mr blooms daze?