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This divergent approach is not meant to deconstruct hypertext as a bottomless gulf of ambiguities. It is intended instead to emphasize a productive tension between the multiplicity of language and the definitiveness of implemented structures. The phenomenological approach to hypertext does not displace the granular perspective; it merely asserts its contingency or susceptibility to breakdown. The text of any given node in a hyperdocument must retain at least local coherence if it is to be intelligible. Likewise the connection of nodes, whether by scripted or implicit links, must conform to a discernible logic of arrivals and departures. True hypertexts may be woven together out of many linear documents or collapsed down into a single one. But a hypertextual writing is always more than the simple sum of its parts. It is a network of actual and possible connections whose typology may be partly virtual (realized in the mind of the reader), and is thus open to articulation. Some hypertext schemes may realize this potential better than others. (Moulthrop, 1992, p. 175.)
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