Category Archives: LITERATURE

For a long time, Ham claims he fears nothing and from what we see of him, I would not wonder why.  There are certain fears common to a group of like status.  With children, we see the fears of losing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So much for providing an example of the thread of building character as I had planned.  I’ve gone astray and ended up in a more philosophical Ham Sandoval that despite his war-lost (?) father, his mother-lost (?) brother, and being … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Unable to read today, Ham Sandoval still visited my mind to keep me wondering.  I have as scattered a series of thoughts as the boxes of text that tells me who he is.  I see his fears, some that no … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some early morning thoughts, random, leftover from last night’s reading… There is a psychological realism quality about this novel and in thinking about previous hypertext stories, I believe that for one thing, it invites the style because of its text … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It strikes me that in this novel and probably others of the hypertext format are written (or read?) in a stream of consciousness manner.  Not only the randomness, the flow of the choice of the paths from one text box … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With an opening that speaks of photons and neurons and borders and lives, I’m lost in the ideas, feeling inadequate and uninformed and completely in over my head.  But there are words here and there, a phrase, something that drives … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This hypertext novel by Steve Ersinghaus won the Best of the Reading Room at the Hypertext ’07 convention in Manchester, England a few weeks ago.  I’ve had access to The Life of Geronimo Sandoval for a month now and have … Continue reading → Continue reading →