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stitch bitch: the patchwork girl >>
Shelley Jackson, book illustrator, author and creator
of the hypertext narrative Patchwork Girl, takes on the
personae of the ãFrankensteinbeckä monster of her parable
to deliver this presentation on the importance of hypertext
for experiencing stories. What appears here are the shuffled
notes of the absent author, insistent on swaying assumptions÷raised
by the Net world÷of identity, fiction, and space. With
thickly slick writing, she cohesively lets her thoughts
dance through the amorphous associative hypercontent that
has spilled out from the confines of book covers onto
the tilting plane of Net space.
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[from the site:]
ãI adore the book, but I donât fit into it very well, as a writer or a
reader. Thereâs always some of me hanging untidily outside, looking like a
mess, an excrescence, something the editor should have lopped off and for
which I feel a bit apologetic. To make something orderly and consecutive out
of the divergent fragments that come naturally feels like forcing myself
through a Klein bottle. My hypertext novel Patchwork Girl grew in clumps and
strands like everything I write, but unlike everything else it had
permission to stay that way, to grow denser and more articulated but not to
reshape itself.ä
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