{"id":76,"date":"2004-06-19T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T19:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=76"},"modified":"2004-06-19T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2004-06-19T19:53:08","slug":"nonlinearity-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/nonlinearity-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"nonlinearity in literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philobiblon.com\/isitabook\/literature\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some thoughts on Nonlinearity in Literature<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I eagerly clicked on this link. The words excited me. I felt disappointed when I read there about techniques such as flashback, reversal of time, branching paths, shuffling the deck&#8230; I don&#8217;t know what I expected. Same with Hypertext. While I love the idea of Hypertext, dealing with it, and seeing how it&#8217;s done overwhelms me with tedium and futility. <\/p>\n<p>so so so so what am I trying to say<br \/>\nit is so damn hard to think I don&#8217;t know how anyone ever accomplishes it<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited by the idea that there are Other Things that can be written and Other Ways of writing that we don&#8217;t even know about yet. It&#8217;s exciting to read about the origins of the novel, for example. It&#8217;s mind-expanding to think about pre-novel life, post-novel life, and what comes after the novel. Has everything been discovered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts on Nonlinearity in Literature I eagerly clicked on this link. The words excited me. I felt disappointed when I read there about techniques such as flashback, reversal of time, branching paths, shuffling&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}