> So far it's easier to feel the potential of the medium than to point to
> wholly successful achievements
Agreed. Looking around, there's lots more hypertext self-described as
fiction than there is hypertext verse.
> Verse hypertext has tended to go an opposite way, away from games-
> playing and puzzles, towards imagism.
It looks that way to me too. There's more to hypertext than HTML
though. Were it easier to provide the user with more clues
about the immediate neighbourhood, more zoom-in/out facilities,
and a choice of links determined by history or preferences, then
HTML would be more fun.
> The hypertext poet needs new ways of thinking about his work.
> [...] Rather he is like an architect.
I'd say more like a landscape architect
* always in a dialog with the changing environment
* able to design narrative linear paths though spatially organised
material
* designing so that revisits are worthwhile
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