Re: hypertexts


Subject: Re: hypertexts
From: Sasha Stone (sstone@primenet.com)
Date: Sun Mar 02 1997 - 14:55:18 GMT


I suppose there is such a thing as the bigger picture. Lots of things
relate back to JDS in any case. But I know what you mean. I am
(personally) grateful for this kind of post as the same-ol' same-ol' gets
tiresome and repetitive after a time.

Sasha

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Dennis DeMarco wrote:

> No offense, but what does this have to with JDS? It seems there's been
> much non-JDS discussion on this site. I subscribed to this list to
> discuss JDS, but lately there seems to be very little of that here.
>
>
> WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> >
> > yes, the talmud, yes it is a hypertext for all the right reasons--it's not
> > a story, but a story with critical and metacritical texts *on the same
> > screen*...hypertext in my eyes is multilinear text with less closure and
> > more active reading roles than text. When I mentioned Balzac's _Human
> > Comedy_ I meant it as a hypertext of l9th century france, not a
> > hyperfiction. Actually, at NYU I briefly worked with an incredibly poor
> > professor. He was so blinded by his status as a virginia woolf scholar
> > that he was unable to be a human teacher--in other words, he had become
> > his subject (literature) so much he stopped teaching people. Nonetheless,
> > he too wrote hypertext when he studied drafts of woolf's _Between the
> > Acts_ and provided readers with several texts of the novel as well as
> > critical and metacritical commentary. When I suggested hypertext as a way
> > to see his work, he laughed at me. He's so desperate for recognitition
> > though that he might not laugh now...now what was the name of his book?
> > will
> >
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