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Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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The author of the hypertext in question found these effects undesirable, so development of the new reader module was abandoned. It is important to ask why the author made this decision. What made him assume that all transitions in a hyperdocument should be of equal and apparently null duration? The "breakdown" in this case involved the author's assumption that architectonic space (the space of the Storyspace graph) could adequately model semantic space (the narrative dimensions of the story). Like all breakdowns, this one is instructive. The author insisted on instantaneous transitions because in his view, semantic space has no fixed dimensions. Part of his narrative project was to create interconnections between scattered story elements, connections which would overcome the sequential separation imposed by the printed page. To speak not entirely fancifully, his design agenda involved creating a story that moved faster than the speed of books. (Kaplan, p. 209.)

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