I'm not sure who this Bernadette person is, perhaps someone SHE was corresponding with - or could simply be someone from HER imagination again.
Bernadette, I agree with your assessment of Eisenman’s piece. I felt that the analogy of the single grain of sand was very interesting because it gave the impression that such power rests even amongst the smallest of things and it could be that piece that can trigger a landslide. Just in electronic-lit, earlier I had wondered if it would make a difference if a piece or two of a hypertext was missing and now I am starting to think that perhaps it would be a great deal of importance if it did go missing. Because just as we don’t know which grain could cause that landslide, the reader nor the author knows which lexia, which piece of the work is that grain that will cause such a reaction, that will bring the work together for the audience. The author can not control or predict the reader’s reaction no more than the reader can. The trick with hypertext is that if a piece does go missing then how can the reader be aware of it? If the reader never finds his or her way out of a loop or finds that secret link will they ever experience that landslide? When pages in a book go missing the reader knows right away and in most cases it’s easy to get another copy of the book but can the same be said for hypertext?
