When turning my Calvino incipit into a hypertextual medium, for the most part I found a word in my piece and decided to google it. When I came up with something I didn’t like or lost interest in it, I went to a different word. Once I found something I did like, I stuck with it. Only a few times did I try to put meaning into the word I was creating a link to. Other times I tried to play off the words that I used, for example picking a picture or site that had an opposite meaning to the word.
An example of this is when I chose to link the word "sliced" to a picture of sliced bread. The meaning of the word in the context of the story had a very different meaning than the picture I linked it with. Another example of playing off words and presenting another meaning to them is when I chose to link the word "sentence" to a web site on how to form sentences in Hungarian. In the context of the story, "sentence" was referring to a jail-term. My link to a picture of Cain and Abel is meant to reflect what the story was pretty much about — one brother killing another for his own personal gain. (I think that’s what Cain and Abel was about). I linked the name of the main characters’ brother — Cimbrian — with an artists’ rendering of Cain and Abel.
For the Cain and Abel example, I feel as if I were successfully able to convey the message behind the story and what I was trying to get across. It really is the only serious link I have in my piece — other than the two I linked to other’s incipits. I tried to have those links have some meaning as well. For example, I chose to link the word "sheild" to Jennifer Parker’s incipit entitled, "Cowering in the Darkest Chasms." A character in the story was trying to hide from the Gorin gang, sheilding himself if you will from them and uncertain death. I’m not sure if this would come across as clearly as maybe the Cain and Abel link, but it is what I was trying to convey.