CONCLUSION
Twelve Blue, is my first
experience in the hypertext’s wold. Firstly my impression on the hypertext was
‘special’. Because one screen did not have relation with other one. Then I do
not know how I must do it. I was lost. For this reason I sent a e-mail to the author of the hypertext, Michael
Joyce, who I answered me very nicely and immediately.
I had choosen that work
because the hypertext’s tittle attracted my attention and a American´s friend
told me he was very good at his work. So I found his name and chose him. I was
supposed to analyze the space aspect of it.
I think it is a
different way to explain many people’s feeling while they were reading it on
the Internet and while they are doing click to another link.
What’s happen?
Possible you answered
‘nothing’. In my opinion the best passage is: ‘Everything can be read, every surface and silence, every breath and
every vacancy, every eddy and current, every body and its absence, every
darkness every light, each cloud and knife, each finger and tree, every
backwater, every crevice and hollow, each nostril, tendril and crescent, every
whisper, every whimper, each laugh and every blue feather, each stone, each
nipple, every thread every color, each woman and her lover, every man and his
mother, every river, each of the twelve blue oceans and the moon, every forlorn
link, every hope and every ending, each coincidence, the distant call of a
loon, light through the high branches of blue pines, the sigh of rain, every
estuary, each gesture at parting, every kiss, each wasp's wing, every foghorn
and railway whistle, every shadow, every gasp, each glowing silver screen,
every web, the smear of starlight, a fingertip, rose whorl, armpit, pearl,
every delight and misgiving, every unadorned wish, every daughter, every death,
each woven thing, each machine, every ever after’
You can see it as a
giant semiotic code. Nothing is represented here. It represents an union of
many words but that does not look for an immediate end rather they try to come
to you from a form different from a poem, story, etc. Micheal Joyce gets this
effect.
It is obvious that a
hypertext has not got the same characteristics that a common text. If we are
concentrated in the argument, we can say that a great range of possibilities is
opened, since the different stories depend on the choice of the internaut. The
interactivity is a key factor in the process for the reading and interpretation
of the hypertext. The space, as element implicit in the argument, also depends
on the choice of the internaut.
In addition, my study
about Twelve Blue' has done that I could consider the hypertext as a way for
entertaining for the reading of a text, by means of some several interactivate
resources and, especially, I think it is creativity hypertext.
I really like ‘Twelve
Blue’. I recomend you if you have time
read it slowly and enjoy with hypertext fiction!!
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Natalia Quintana Morán
naquinmo@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press