After reading George Landow's "Hypertext and Critical Theory" I realized that the hypertext media sounds more useful as a source of encyclopedic, references, journals, essays kind of literature rather than a story, or "'high' literature." I mean, I can imagine sitting reading some novel by Thomas Hardy, and thinking about the different aspects of society he is criticizing, and wanting to know more, and clicking on the links that will take me there, and reading a lot of material about Hardy's society, and me never finishing Jude the Obscure or any other of his novels. It would be a nightmare, but at the same time an easier format to access the vast amount of information regarding any particular aspect of what one is urrently reading.

Another aspect of hypertext that was interesting, was, I believe the example Joyce uses of his student Les, the college kid who couldn't write a logical paper. To me the process he describes--which is not at all filled with extraordinary detail-- seems more like a cluster of ideas being put together, rather than anything else--referring to the program the student used. Perhaps I am confused as to how he used the program, or what the program actually was like, but, it reminded me of those dumb "spider web" clusters I used to use in fourth grade to organize my ideas and further develop what would eventually be paragraphs. Maybe I misread, it is a huge possibility... So, yeah...