Essay Compost #4
Compare Patchwork Girl with the Stitch Bitch article especially the Gaps, Leaps paragraph.
The idea of hypertext and what it is and how it is problematic due to the gaps, leaps that it has due to the hypertext form.
“A conventional novel is a safe ride. It is designed to catch you up, propell you down its track, and pop you out at the other end with possibly a few new catchphrases in your pocket and a pleasant though vague sense of the scenery rushing by. The mechanism of the chute is so effective, in fact, that it undoes the most worthy experiments; sentences that ought to stop you in your tracks are like spider webs across the chute. You rip through, they’re gone.”
Use this quote to compare hypertext of Patchwork Girl with what Shelley Jackson is saying about hypertexts in this article Stitch Bitch.
