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Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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Yet this mapping scheme is subject to breakdown just like any other. The map shown in Figure 5 may represent the complexity of textual relations within a document. It may even suggest how these relations are, in Nelson's words, "deeply intertwingled." However, it cannot reliably depict Harpold's "place you never get to," since in at least some cases, that place may exist only as a hypothetical alternative in the mind of the user. Like the weighted linking scheme of the first exercise, this relativistic map can suggest the dimensions of semantic space, but it cannot exhaustively represent them. Semantic spaces thus constitutes an inevitable limiting factor for any architectonic representation. (Kaplan, p. 214.)

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