A whimsical but quite brilliant hypertext I found on my search for hypertexts:
RECYCLED by Giselle Beiguelman, 2001.
Postmodernim at its recycled, self-conscious re-construction of rubble (when the text is fully deconstructed surely we finally find the alphabet). A Borgesian script of cyberstream poetry. Everything is second hand, open source. I could play all day in this playground.
I found it through the Electronic Literature Organization:
In “Recycled,” Giselle Beiguelman has taken an “artifact” of electronic technology, the object-follow-cursor feature, and transposed it into a moving metaphor. Across a field of bright yellow, the letters RECYCLED enter the screen, track the cursor, disappear if gathered, and finally clump together and vanish, only to begin migrating, again, from the margins. The letters, then, are constantly being “recycled” — and the reader is the agent in effecting the transformation. Beiguelman’s piece is an example of the way in which minimal text can join with technological trope in a “reading” of e-lit.
Sheath of feeling. Words groping to touch air.
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I'd been to the ELO before, but I had not come across "Recycled." Thanks for the lead. It is interesting to me that, in light of the textual claim to have "no beginning," you must nonetheless select a beginning with which to bookmark and hyperlink the text for a next reader. I was inclined to pick page three of the work as a beginning ... fascinating! -mg
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