SPACE

12 Blue comes from the wonderful critic, N. Katherine Hayles in her recently published book, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01247.

On this hypertext is possible that at beginning you do not understand what is happening on your screen. It is difficult to follow the thread in many differents time because when you think that you are in the good way, something turns out you to be backwards.

You should read slowly each different node. Which one could be joined with Is it possible? Are you thinking the same space like another person?

I am going to explain my points of view but probably they are not the same as you. In ‘Twelve Blue’ the surface that first presents itself already invites us to play, for it consists of twelve colored threads in different hues, predominantly clustered at the blue end of the spectrum, against a deep blue background. The threads, which are interactive and change orientation according to how we play them, are divided into eight "bars" suggesting the measures of a musical score.  By playing this score we are also weaving the threads into patterns, a metaphor not so much mixed as synesthetic, for sight is in-mixed with sound, texture with vision.

This ‘lines’ could represent the line life too. Life’s from different main characters on the hypertext. I found some example along the hypertext as:

·                          On an August afternoon...

· It is not the season for love, however, thin blue snow in the air, distant carols. There's a rumor someone drowned in the river. La estrella es la noche helada de fósforo. You'll be doing alright with your Christmas of white but I'll have a blue, blue, blue (It seems like Christmas time but it look they are not a good holiday)

· What choice do we have but love, what season after?

· September's embers never ending.

· She resolved to fall in love as often as possible so as to avoid the inevitable distrust which afflicts an orphan or the child of divorced parents (It told us a story about Samantha and a boy which their relationship it is not good).

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