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Very cool stuff! I knew of Joyce, though I've never read Afternoon (I'm worried it won't meet expectations), but As We May Think I'd never heard of before.
by zimbabwe 17y ago
Very cool stuff! I knew of Joyce, though I've never read Afternoon (I'm worried it won't meet expectations), but As We May Think I'd never heard of before.
- twopoint718 17y agoAfter I heard about him, I went to my campus library and checked out "Afternoon." It comes on one 3.5" floppy disk and couldn't be removed from the reading room. So I sat down (at the only machine left with a floppy drive) and clicked through it for about an hour. It is certainly very different from a usual novel. For starters you have no idea how long it is. Hyperlinks aren't highlighted as we've come to expect and so I have to admit that I was doing some Myst-style random clicking at times. You'll often get back to the same paragraph but through a different path, these paragraphs are usually written in such a way that they would make sense by any path that you'd arrived at them.