More wiki musings

I was looking around in the wiki yet again, and I only just really noticed that it presents something of an amusing contradiction. The basic narrative is something torn out of one of those daytime soaps watched by shut-ins and people in hospitals, or maybe out of this Desperate Housewives show I hear so much about. From what I understand, that one's even got a plumber. However, being a class full of English majors, we really can't resist attempting to make it literary. I know I couldn't resist thinking back to Paradise Lost a whole lot and throwing an appropriate, but probably unnecessary Candide reference into a tale of suburban marital angst, although the former probably has something to do with the thesis i'm writing about Satan.

What I think is pretty cool about this is what it demonstrates about the capabilities of the wiki format. Using those neat little hyperlinks, we can keep the overall arc on soap opera level, and do our literary duties behind the scenes in a sense. I'm really intrigued by the layering effects we're getting out of this. There's the "internet is down" frame narrative, the daytime TV narrative, and then the deeper stuff that people are embedding in that, not to mention any number of idiosyncratic little branches. In a sense, this lends physicality to the implied layering that we find in more conventional literature. Instead of unpacking the text in a metaphorical sense, we can do so quite literally.