Author Archives: susan

Kundera makes clear his metaphor of musical composition for a lifetime, and several times he has reinforced the image if not outright making it a clear statement. My own inclination is to often call all creative forces "art" and so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I realize that as a hypertext enthusiast and writer I look for these things in other areas of life, but I don’t think that it can be denied that the past produces the present and so some form of primitive … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Once again, Kundera writes as a teacher of writing in his narrative.  As he names a particular bowler hat as a "motif" he explains how it comes to take on meaning. While we are not left to discover the hat’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While I may have thought of hypertext fiction as revolutionary, it appears to have come about in a more evolutionary process. There is an obvious plot of maps in Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, where several seemingly … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Am in the middle of pressing wine (by hand) so I’ve not time enough to write the post itself but had to say that page 52 is about one of the best teachers of hypertext pattern reasoning I’ve absorbed. Will … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Finally getting some time to read and I’m finding myself intrigued by Kundera’s manner of posing a theory and illustrating it by introducing a couple of characters and from there, beginning a story. The idea of eternal return is a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just a couple pages, but it appears that we’re getting into story from this point on so I’ll make a quick comment here. I either just love the impossibility of reading this without giving it serious thought, or it makes … Continue reading →

Up next, something a bit different. It seems I’ve been reading sort of realism based in the early 1900s and it’s time to go fly away a bit. It was this, or one of Joseph Conrad’s pieces.  I have several, … Continue reading →