As I finished the print essay, it became compellingly clear that there should be a hypertext as well. Ideally this should have been what I have elsewhere called a "native" hypertext -- i.e. a network of writings conceived and executed electronically. You will not find such a thing here, though if you want to see something of that sort, visit Nancy Kaplan's space,"E-Literacies" or my own essay, "Shadow of an Informand".
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