Critics have suggested that eliterature will be rhizomatic. Maybe I'm the only one who wasn't getting this or appreciating the significance of it, but a rhizome is made of lines. Examining the botanical image will make for an analogous point with regard to text:

• If one examines the root system of a fungal mat, those lines seem pretty chaotic individually, though some higher order seems to exist. (I can't find an adequate picture online, believe it or not, so I'll present this skyview of Paris as being slightly too regular and quadratic.

Wow. Everytime I get back here, something's new.

Marmelade's recent comment on Dandelife has me rethinking my ideas about coherence in text.

Did anyone else visit Dandelife and immediately feel confident that the metatext or megatext produced would be somehow coherent? I suspect that the insistence on dated entries somehow establishes this. For instance, Marmelade seems to have gone back and found things that happened on a birthday. My thought would have run something like "Gee, look at all these things that happened on that given day that seem totally unrelated." And the very difference, discreteness, of the events makes the metanarrative itself extremely coherent just because they are connected in our thought by their historical moments. And that connection is not at all arbitrary.