Structural problems:
I wish I could set the timing for the next page, you are "forced" to
read fast, no time to contemplate what you read, I assume that this is deliberate, a
forced march.
Would like to be able to stop this thing during times of having to pee or
answering the phone.
Writing that has to be returned to again and again. More like poetry or even
more like a picture or painting that you can view again and again.
The human mind constantly looks for meaning, for context, this is why we
"entertain" ourselves w/ reading. Is the "meaning " of this that it
has no meaning? Or is the meaning in the structure? Three columns, each w/ a central text,
even the "index" a three column list of links...does the piece somehow follow
three parallel paths? Or do the background colors mean anything? Are they just random?
Maybe by subverting meaning a new meaning emerges...Why do we care? Can find only one
dominant thread of narrative, that of a couple driving east for some reason, it seems to
end in Akron but maybe not.
Again, something that the critics are aghast about. The writing must
always become a game, a puzzle to be solved. Now it can be demeaned from literature to a
mere computer game. Maybe Literary Puzzle is a better name. Where does this differ, from
text adventures, so-called interactive literature? Of course in interactive literature the
reader can talk to and question the piece, they can also become characters in the piece.
Is there a difference here?
I have a story here...A concert of electronic music attended by a hip educated
crowd of music fans at an East Coast college in the 50's. The music was so strange and
dissonant that during intermission people had to run outside and vomit...Electronic music
has come a long way, now a background hum for our whole society.
