{"id":7,"date":"2009-01-04T06:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=7"},"modified":"2009-02-15T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:47:11","slug":"hypertext-past-as-hypertext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/01\/hypertext-past-as-hypertext\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypertext: Past as Hypertext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">(<\/span>Posted originally at Spinning 01\/02\/09)<\/p>\n<p>As always, I read and write with the basic idea of borders, nodes,<br \/>\ntimes and spatial levels in mind since messing around with a bit of<br \/>\nhypertext and interactive fiction some years back. One thing that hit<br \/>\nme along with all the other editing done in reading and reading and<br \/>\nreading my own work was the notion of the separation of time and place<br \/>\nvia nodes or lexias that is the hypertext way. Perhaps because the past<br \/>\nin this piece is enclosed within the face of a four-slice toaster, a<br \/>\nvisual space that separates the events; past and present, and the two<br \/>\nwomen who are so much alike.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t really do a good job of<br \/>\nhypertext writing, using it not to its complexity of levels of story,<br \/>\nso not really getting everything out of it for the reader&#39;s benefit, I<br \/>\nsuppose. But even on the simplest mapping of two or three or four main<br \/>\nstory paths, I cannot fail to see the past as an ongoing story that is<br \/>\nnot only closely related to the present (the present becoming the past<br \/>\nin the flash of a nanosecond) but is responsible for it as it plays out<br \/>\ntoward the future. <\/p>\n<p>The other main appeal (for me) of hypertext<br \/>\nis the simultaneous happening of time within different space. Easier<br \/>\nput: I&#39;m sitting here in CT typing on my laptop, but what&#39;s Willie<br \/>\ndoing and where? <\/p>\n<p>This particular story is not prime for hypertext, but perhaps all stories contain the possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">(<\/span>Posted originally at Spinning 01\/02\/09) As always, I read and write with the basic idea of borders, nodes, times and spatial levels in mind since messing around with a bit of hypertext and interactive fiction some years back. One thing that hit me along with all the other editing done in reading and reading and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext","tag-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}