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At 03/04/98 09:43:31, Ted Slade <[log in to unmask]> wrote: # George # Isn't the problem that poetry is anyway hypertextual, containing # references, allusions, multiple meanings, non-poetic images, concealed # rhythms, not all of which are consciously put there by the poet, and # which the serious reader has to tease out, not by a single linear # reading, but by repeated and close study? And if you try to formalize # this by developing the hypertext poem in which every such nuance is # represented by a link the reader can follow, aren't you in danger of # destroying rather than enhancing the essential interplay between the # reader and the poem? Maybe the hypertextual poem will be a "hopeful monster" - something that may not live beyond it's novelty. Then again, it might develop it's own kinetics with a life of it's own. Roger # %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%