Primary Sources
It's high time I wrote this appreciation.
These are the people whose works, theories, hypertexts, essays, rants, and
spirit I absorbed at the time I was constructing Alphaweb, my first venture
out on the Web. They bushwhacked the path through the undergrowth.
They gave me permission to go absolutely nuts with it. They are the pioneers.
They are the primary sources on things hypertextual. They blew my mind,
each in a completely different and individual way. I am very grateful.
He has many home pages; they come in different flavors.
Take a wild ride on Hegirascope. It is to my mind the most innovative work of web fiction I've
seen. I love it. Very pushy. Interactive like a boxing match.
informed my thinking about what I did and did not want to do with/in the medium--to the core.
Studies indicate that Nancy Kaplan is the fairy godmother of hypertext.
I can only say what her work feels like to me: Her observations of how we feel in and around and
through each other and the vocabulary she has created to express the subtleties--in gesture, color,
shape, touch, and especially in the unsaid, or the almost said--don't listen to me--I'm blathering.
Try Quibbling.
You can call him Daddy of Hypertext. You can call him Granddaddy. You can call him patron
saint, for all I care, as long as he can proliferate unfettered--not that anyone could stop him. His
latest work, Twilight, is dense and rich and heartrending and gorgeous and...a nine course meal.
I'm gorging myself. Language pours out of him, an avalanche of images.
... is a truly original thinker who can put his wildness into words and spin a tale of Talmud and
Telepathy, of Eudoxian discourse. Find the essay Hacking the Brainstem at the bottom of the
telepathy page. Start at the Porush page and see what happens. You may or may not arrive where
you were going (as if you knew) but the ride, the ride...
...of course, is your source for the best in hypertexts and tools for creation. Many samples of
works.
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