{"id":501,"date":"2008-09-30T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T16:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?p=501"},"modified":"2008-09-30T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T16:47:45","slug":"afternoon-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/09\/30\/afternoon-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"afternoon, a story"},"content":{"rendered":"

So before I started reading Michael Joyce\u2019s hypertext, afternoon, a story,<\/em> I did some research to try and figure out what the story was about. I read that it\u2019s supposedly about a man, Peter, who thinks he\u2019s witnessed the death of his ex-wife and his son. \u201cIntriguing\u201d was the first thought that came through my mind. I popped the CD in and went on the hypertext journey. At first, I wasn\u2019t sure who was speaking, as certain pages would refer to Peter in the third person, while other pages kept using \u201cI\u201d. I’m still not clear on who exactly is speaking. When the story says “I” does it want us to connect and relate to the story?<\/p>\n

The page I ended up on, although still unsure what I clicked to get there, has one sentence, \u201cI want to say I have seen my son die this morning.\u201d After clicking on all the words, I found out that the word \u201cdie\u201d brought me to a description of what he (Peter?) saw. As he described the accident\u2019s scene, where his ex-wife and son would travel on if she were taking him to school, I couldn\u2019t help but get pulled more into the story. I visualized the scene, with the body on the lawn and the \u201csmaller body beyond\u201d. <\/span>I finally started to follow the story and wanted to find out more. I clicked Y hoping it would give me more information about the plot, or at least onto a page that will keep the story going; but I was disappointed to be directed to a page about him not being able to dream and the discovery of Wert being allergic to walnut pollen.<\/p>\n

As I clicked around, I just got more and more frustrated because the pages didn\u2019t make sense, nor did they even connect with the previous pages. The pages of the story seem to have two different stories going on at the same time. I\u2019m not sure whether or not that was Joyce\u2019s intention, but for me it just makes it hard to follow. It makes even more complicated that the story doesn\u2019t really have a closure. With the randomness of the hypertext, it forces us, the reader, to interpret the story whichever way we want, or whatever way would make the most sense to us. Maybe that<\/em> was Joyce\u2019s true intentions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So before I started reading Michael Joyce\u2019s hypertext, afternoon, a story, I did some research to try and figure out what the story was about. I read that it\u2019s supposedly about a man, Peter, who thinks he\u2019s witnessed the death of his ex-wife and his son. \u201cIntriguing\u201d was the first thought that came through my … Continue reading afternoon, a story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}