Re: [-empyre-] Patrick's post

[Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>]

> Many thnaks  Patrick -I looked at your site and enjoyed it very much. Lots
> of interest there from the point of view of navigation and visuals. Looking
> at this made it is a lot clearer to me what you were  drivinging at.
>
> I really don't have any problem with anything you say. Of course multiple
> hyperlinks in each lexia of hupertext can be used to create multiple
> pathways too, but you obviously think that your site creates a different
> kind of experience, and I can see that in some ways it does.
>
> Anyway I certainly agree that thinking/creating in that kind
> multidimensional way is extremely stimulating, and I'm  definitely
> interested in those kinds of challenge myself. In fact being forced to
> think in a multivalent way is probably the thing that MOST interests me
> about any form of writing!

Thanks for your kind words, Hazel.  I don't take any umbrage with any of 
your comments; it seemed to me that my viewpoint seemed to be a little 
'unique' to the conversation vis-a-vis my focus on devices such as 
cognitive mapping, parallel narratives, and multivalent discourse in 
writing.  I'm not suggesting that what I'm doing is a complete paradigmatic 
shift in narrative (and forgive me for taking the polemic in saying that, 
as my actual position is a bit milder), but what I'm aiming at is an 
experiment in creating a form of literature that goes further than previous 
works such as Grammatron in their methodologies of communication.

My biggest challenge right now, as I have said before, is that the tools to 
do so are either spotty in their availability or currently strain my 
abilities as a programmer.

But thanks again for your insights!