CONCLUSION
Alter having read the play the truth is that I felt a little strange
because is a bit strange, but apart from this its amusing. The language resulted
quite complicated due to the technicisms regarding to
the World of construction which I ignore. As I didnīt understand why the author
wrote this story and I didnīt found anything in his webpage apart from the link,
I sent him an e-mail in case of having an explanation, but I had no answer, as
it happened to me already in the subject of Hypertexts. The only thing I have found
and I would like to add is the Bill Beaverīs opinion about Damascene which Iīve
found in his webpage:
Damascene, I believe he is
referring to damask, the reversible fabric, is about builders and the building
of a church and palace, each containing in itself a message as implied by the
architecture. Damascene is conservative as hyperfictions
go with only two branchings. The density is in the
writing, events play themselves out different ways but everything that happens
in the various endings is implied somewhere earlier. There is a mix-up of
author and character here, one character has by imagination created a builder
who will "build" a conclusion to her story but who is attacked by the
character created by another builder in an alternate path. Into this mix comes
the reader, an unknown and new participant, who has the power to chose an outcome that the characters and author can't
control. It is the challenge of hyperfiction to
somehow incorporate this new entity into it's
story.
http://enhancedphotos.com/hyperfiction/MPComment/comments.htm
This is a hypertext which I recommend to read because its quite amusing and
although there are things that are not easy to understand at first or donīt
find any relation with what you are reading, when you continue reading you
start to make sense of what you are reading. However, thereīs something which I
didnīt understand after finishing to read the play, and that is if Attilaīs
fiancé and the Lieutenant are the same person.
So thatīs all I could take out from the play. Iīm sorry
for not being able to comment anything else but I donīt have the mediums to do
it, so that is the way I conclude the analysis of the play.