Victory Gardens
Fragmentation
One quality of both the individual texts
and the way in which they unfold
as one attempts to navigate through them
is their unpredictability;
behaviors seem unmotivated and
it is almost impossible
to find the antecedents of any action.
Things, such as car-chases or sex-scenes
are simply taking place.
Whilst this is reminiscent of an action film
in a film there is usually some dénouement.
Victory Gardens never ends
- or it ends suddenly by simply coming to a stop with a blank screen.
This produces a sense of menace and helplessness.
This structure also adds to the
sense of fragmentation.
At one moment it
follows a story line
and set of characters,
at the next the screen fragments, goes black and comes to a
To by-pass this it is necessary to pull back from the text,
use the navigation tools or use the back control or 'history'
to enter at another point or
start a new set of links.
The reader selects
each reading but is not in control
of that selection - unless she actively manipulates the text.
To do so produces another level of fragmentation.
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