HYPERTEXT: As medium
Hypertext is indeed only one vehicle for transporting a reader
through a story. Pencil and paper, typewriter, paper, computer,
software, as well as dance, song, ears, mouth, are all methods to
travel.
I’m finding some very interesting things out about K’s use of
Hypertextopia. For one thing, she’s maneuvered it to work in more of a
paths form, as Storyspace would offer. While I haven’t seen that all
the paths connect to many of the lines of thought but go through to the
end, there is a very interesting concept at the end: It goes back and
forth as if giving a choice to the reader as to where they choose to
let it end. There is also an intriguing thought: that of the stories
being short, separated by the author for that very point.
(This is a duplicate of a posting at CW, a course log that nobody reads)
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