Perhaps, if we are patient, critical works will eventually appear. After all, T. S. Eliot (1922) wrote that "Criticism is as inevitable as breathing". He further explains that "we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel emotion about it". (p. 28) With this view of criticism, readers share what "passes in [their] minds" as they read. That is, criticism captures the thoughts of readers.
One would have to wonder, however, if "criticism is as inevitable as breathing" why do we see so little hypertext criticism being written? Perhaps hypertext is just too new a field to have generated critical readings. Perhaps they will eventually come. Yet, since we are at the fifteenth anniversary of afternoon [1], we need also to wonder if there isn't something else going on (of course, we could say that it has only been 15 years). Is it possible that there is something in the nature of these texts that dissuades traditional types of criticism?
Eliot, T. S. (1922) "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Bartleby.com,
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