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Michael Joyce Quotes

born 1945 United States

Michael Joyce (born 1945) is a professor of English at Vassar College. He is an author and critic of hypertext fiction and electronic literature.

United States
Academics
Short story writers

Also known as: Afternoon, a story

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I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning.

There is no simple way to say this.

"Hypertext is a representation of the text which escapes and surprises by turns," I wrote. Given the pure unaccountability (it is literally impossible to read all the possible variations of a richly linked hypertext) a hyperfiction writer is always attuned to "how the reader will interpret the literature presented" since its presentation shifts and flows in its composition as well.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Joyce (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.