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Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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The notion that the visual units between shots, for instance dissolves, are a minimal segment is perhaps indicative of the extent to which we do need to think of minimal narrative units, and these being formed by syntagmatic series. It is not likely that we can think of a link, even a link that is visually represented in some way, as a narrative unit per se (unless we could argue that the space between words was a narrative unit?), though it is clearly a minimal segment or unit.

Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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