SPACE
12 Blue comes from the wonderful critic, N. Katherine Hayles in her ecently published book, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01247
This hypertext requires
you sit down in your chair and you were very relaxed. Possible at begining 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, somethimg turns out you to be backwards.
You sould read slowly
each different node. Which one colud 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 problably 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 exemple along the hypertext as:ü On an August afternoon....
ü
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)
ü
What choice do we have but love, what season after?
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September's embers never ending.
ü
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).
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Natalia Quintana Morán
naquinmo@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press