INTRODUCTION

 
 

“We Descend” is a hipertextual work by Bill Bly, structured through a series of documents from different authors. These documents have a relationship between them, that the reader will be discovering with its reading.
 
 
 

We can navigate through the text by two ways:
 

1. First we can go directly to a beginning of the history stablished by the author by clicking the link START.
Here we can follow a development of the history more or less lineal clicking the link at the bottom of the text. These links will drive us through the texts of the different authors, so that we will finally read the almost totality of the “documents”.
 
2. The second option we have is to select one of the different authors who bring their text to the work through the link “INVENTORY”. This link brings us the list of the “authors”:
§ Scholar: This is the diary of a learned-investigator in which he tells that he has found a series of ancient documents which once known could have a great repercussion. But he has no evidences about the veracity of these, so he’s afraid of the disparagement and the jokes of their colleagues.
These happenings seem to occur in a past time more or less close to the present.
Bly appends a note ( “Notae”) to this document, in which he clarifies the thoughts and the commentaries of the Scholar to the reader, for a better comprehension of the text.
 
§ Edgerus: One of the texts found by the Scholar. It seems to come from a quite far past.
“The Testament of Edgerus” tells the experiences of Edgerus: a monk from “The Brotherhood of the Mountain House”.
One morning, walking outside the domains of “the House”, he´s assaulted by Gig, an enormous man who has terrified the brothers, whom he uses to attack with his big axe. Edgerus, on his runaway, falls down, staying at the mercy of the giant; but, when he sees Edgerus´ face  Gig seems frightened for a few moments, but that doesn´t  prevent him from  finally attacking the monk...
...Edgerus wakes up at the infirmary of “the House”, a bit confused about what happened. Later he hears that crippled limbs from Gig´s body have been found at the environs of “the House”...
 
§ Historian: Here, a man (who seems to be Edgerus) tells us that he is a prisoner of a strange beings: as agile as cats and with a very beautiful language ( that remains him bird´s chant ). That beings have locked him in a cell, being at the care of a woman.
§ Remnant: These are a series of proverbs in which the author (supposedly Edgerus ) conveys his philosophy of life: losers, by the way of suffering, they learn...
§ Ancients: A document about an uncertain and apocalyptic time, in which the world seems to have become into some kind of marsh, being lashed by lasting storms, in which humankind is  constantly decimated.

 

By this way we can see the different documents one by one, without skipping  anything; so that we obtain a better and ordered knowledge of the different texts.
In order to use this system, Bly provides us with an useful navigating bar.

We must also say that the work enables us to recover read information or extend more in it by the way of the links which are inside the same text.
 
 
 

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