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Notes on HeavyLinking
as an essay
Re-think how we read and how the words work in a hypertext: That is, use link text to create a pattern, a poem, a sense of what's significant. And the branching nature of hypertext to control the sequence of the patterning, create alternative paths, options. Think of this as an annotated tour or essay (old sense of essay: to walk around)Look at the link text in http://www.mshogue.com/ce9/hypertext/htx_essay.htm
From this list of link text
- prairie flowers and follow the signs
- a butterfly house
- the trillium
- a woodpecker that you missed,
Now focus on a single possible path of that walk, getting in closer -
- oak tree
- spruce
- jack pine
- banyan tree
- babul
- jujube …
All trees, but the movement starts in a north woods forest and moves to India.
Here's an alternative path, defined by a second walker who is not that interested in trees.
- pond
- tadpoles
- Red pine.
She looks into the nest -
- aerie
- eaglets
- mountain
Now we're in in Alaska
And so
The challenge is finding the appropriate material to link to - or, when you can't or would rather not - writing it yourself. You can use our wiki for these paths, sending the reader back to the mainstream. Or you can use anchors in the page to move readers to a a variety of places within the page.This way of reading works better if the terms are more specific, more loaded.
The annotated source
Consider what phrases you would annotate and what you would link them to. If this is done woodenly, with obviously, it doesn't achieve much. But if done with shrewd choice and commentary, can work beautifully.Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
HAMET
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--
lost all my mirth,
forgone all custom of exercises;
and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that
this goodly frame, the earth,
seems to me a sterile promontory,
this most excellent canopy, the air,
look you,
this brave o'erhanging firmament,
this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,
it appears no other thing to me than
a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man!
how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty!
in form and moving how express and admirable!
in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god!
the beauty of the world!
the paragon of animals!
And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust?
man delights not me: no, nor woman neither.
Take it part by part -
The firmament: sky, but more than that in Elizabethan conception:
look you,
this brave
o'erhanging
firmament,
Leads to images and texts concerning heaven as fundamental - the first thing created
a physical place, and a cosmology.
this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,
it appears no other thing to me than
a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
