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- From: John_Maxwell@mindlink.bc.ca (John Maxwell)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: Re: Interaction with a hypertext
- Message-ID: <14796@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:35:56 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- My impression of how a hypertext should be (ideally, anyway) is an endless sort
- of "comments in the margins" sort of discourse between the first author of the
- work and then subsequent reader-authors. Jay David Bolter, in his book "Writing
- Space" talks about the breakdown of traditional ideas of authorship and the
- repurcussions this has for the kinds of rhetoric we're used to.
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- I have yet to see a hypertext system that makes it so easy for a reader to add
- to the text that his or her comments become part of the text for the next
- reader.
- -JMax
- john_maxwell@mindlink.bc.ca
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