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In hypertext the relation of linking to writing is different to that in the cinema. The choice of what and where to link, in the moment of the possibility of the link, remains unbound and open, while any individual link becomes a reduction, a singularity, in this set of possibilities.
Writing within any particular node is more constrained than choosing an image to film or photograph, but it is probably less constrained than 'traditional' writing as the distance between nodes allows a freedom that the serial paragraph form generally doesn't. (Well, it could, we just tend to write in sensible, serial, chunks.)
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
A performative hypertext presented by Journal of Digital Information