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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_of_the_d%27Urbervilles

In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as numbers, parts, fascicules or fascicles, and may be released either as separate publications or within sequential issues of a periodical publication, such as a magazine or newspaper. Serialisation can also begin with a single short story that is subsequently turned into a series. Historically, such series have been published in periodicals. Popular short-story series are often published together in book form as collections.

Some modern examples on http://intergalacticmedicineshow.com/ and https://archiveofourown.org/ but obviously mostly serial tv and film. Comics. Serial albums? Sometimes I guess like when a few singles come out before an album? But it's more of a narrative device really so doesnt make too much sense in that context. Newspapers sometimes release big stories as series. Football tournaments like the Serie A.

On the computer serialisation is "translating a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored or transmitted and reconstructed later." Can computers really only do one thing at a time? If they could, serialising wouldnt make any sense, everything would be serialised all the time? Series as opposed to parallel. Marshalling and pickling. Is it important to engage with computers at this level? The mouth probably didn't originally evolve to speak, so is it useful/important/necessary to consider it (at all) when thinking about speech?

Parallel sounds nice as in moving beside, rather than following a single line.