STORYSPACE: Timing
Watching Jurassic Park and noticed an excellent notion of hypertext: concurrent events that cause extreme tension. In the compound, Laura Bern is following radio instructions on how to turn the system back on so that all electricity, the fences, the lights, computers systems, all will be returned to normal. At the very same moment, the Professor and the two kids are climbing an electric fence after having checked to make sure it is non-electrified momentarily.
Two major events are about to collide.
This is what a hypertext adventure can do, mimicking the balance of tension of one story line or the other (or many) while the writer carefully guides the reader to the point at which they meet.
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