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Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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The object here is to let the quoted, appropriated author speak for himself, or, rather, to permit his text to speak for itself without being summarized, translated, distorted by an intermediary voice. To write in this manner - that is to say, to copy, to appropriate - seems suited to an electronic environment, an environment in which text can be reproduced, reconfigured, and moved with very little expenditure of effort. In this environment, furthermore, such a manner of proceeding also seems more honest: the text of the Other may butt up against that by someone else; it may even crash against it. but it does seem to retain more of its own voice. (Landow 1999, p. 158.)

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