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The parallel syntagma is an achronological sequence that is extremely common, and well known, and is where two different series are interconnected. Again this was heavily utitlised by Russian montage directors such as Sergei Eisenstein, and while the two intercut series do not have a clear or definite relationship (they are, of themselves, apparently unrelated) in their combination a context and comparison is established that generates significance between the otherwise disparate series. An example of this might be the intercutting of two oppositional sequences such as images of summer and images and winter, or of wealth and poverty.
A classic hypertext example of this is Shelley Jackson's A Patchwork Girl which regularly links the resewn body with the resewn text.
On the other hand the bracket syntagma (Metz uses this name as he suggests an analogy to the use of brackets in written discourse) is an autonomous segment where a series of what could be thought of as homogenous allusions are made in consecutive sequence.
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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