Sunday, February 8, 2009

The first site I found about The Garden of Forking Paths was http://www.geocities.com/papanagnou/cover.htm. The gist of the site is that the story is written with various words appearing in color and when those random words are clicked on the text jumps to a different section of the story. The opening paragraph always appears the same, but the remainder of the story can be read in dozens of ways depending on what words you click. It works as an interesting, can I say neat, way of illustrating the story's point about an infinite story, but at the same time it is an impossible site to read. So while it is interesting conceptually, it isn't something you would really want to sit down and read seriously without losing interest. Of course at the same time this layout gives the reader the opportunity to function as the writer and change the story with a click of a button.

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