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| Assumpte: | Victory Garden | |
| Per a: | samoulthrop@ubmail.ubalt.edu | |
| De: | <anmubou@alumni.uv.es> | |
| Data: | Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:55:23 +0100 (CET) |
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Hi Stuart,
My name is Toni and I am a student from the University of
Valencia, in Spain. I am currently working in one of your Hypertexts. In
the subject of English Narrative I have to build a kind of essay about a hypertext which I
have chosen from a list of
authors that our professor, Vicente Forés, has given to us. After reading some of them I
have finally decided to work about your hypertext Victory Garden, which
I know is an excerpt of the original one.
In my work I have to explain the time aspects I could find in that
hypertext. I'm not sure if I will be able to read the whole text but I already
have found some troubles with the texts connections because some links when you
click on them take you to another different part of the story. Of course you
already realise that is the same scheme but does not follow the same story you
left when click the link. Is the first time I deal with a Hypertext so it's a
bit confusing for me to read it and I thought that it's a good idea to ask you
about some help or advice if you don't mind and have some free time. I'll be
grateful if you do have just a few minutes to tell me something which could help me to
understand the text. It's nice to be able to contact with the father of the
hypertext I'm dealing with. Who better than you knows what's going on in
Victoria Garden?
Thank you very much for your time, I will appreciate any comment.
Best wishes,
Toni
Dear Toni --
It's hard to know what to say, beyond "good luck." Hypertexts don't want
tobe linear, so they make lots of trouble with narrative time.
I do need to point out that the excerpts available on line represent only about
10% of "Victory Garden", so you probably should look at the
complete work.
If you want to change to something more readily available, you might try "Reagan
Library," which is accessible on the Web at iat.ubalt.edu/Moulthrop/hypertexts/rl.
It has a variety of timelines, including, in a very sequential way, the time of
reading. Or "Hegirascope," at iat.ubalt.edu/Moulthrop/hypertexts/hgs,
about which similar things could be said.
Best,
Stuart Moulthrop
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From: anmubou@alumni.uv.es [mailto:anmubou@alumni.uv.es]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 5:55 PM
To: samoulthrop@ubalt.edu
Subject: Victory Garden
