Submitted by Jennilee on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 15:51.
After trying out Michael Joyce's Twelve Blue for the first time, I was at first fascinated by the whole process of piecing together this story in any way I chose. With no real beginning or ending it was fun and interesting to go about the text and kind of make my own story up the way that I wanted to. But after a while I quickly got lost and bored. Having heard most of the class' remarks on Twelve Blue I didn't feel alone in my confusion. However, after reading Marie Ryan's explanation of the type of hypertext fiction Twelve Blue really is, it made the text clearer. I went from thinking of it as a bunch of random text to different events that are recollected and interpreted differently. Ryan explains the text as a reproduction of dreams and memory as well as a stream of consciousness. Each link is like bringing those recollections from one's memories into their conscious thought. Since these memories come into mind at anytime, they aren't in any order of time, and they can come back at any time. read more »
