The Internet: the final frontier. These are the class-notes of the starship Electronic Literature. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new websites, to seek out new literature and new references, to boldly go where no one has gone before. dan da da dan da da dan......
Captians Log, Star date 2211, we have just begun to read an Electronic poem entitled"Frequently Asked Questions about "Hypertext". Not only does the poem allow the reader to read the poem but also criticism from several well educated individuals as well as "Fandom".
All we can analyse is that the critics at first give meaning to the poem, answering the unanswerable question" what is it about??
well it could be broken up into several different meanings:
1. Transsexual menage toia between the antagonist and
2. Music, Art and Knowledge and repressed sexuality have been transformed into beer names and questions.
3. The stupidity of the BUSH administration.( that supports the original author's disappearance)
4.Sex machine, literally
5. Using Hypertext, we then have "the Post transsexual or Posttranny Rereading." unfortunity, this debate could not occur;the two critics most knowledgeable in these matters died/committed suicide/were murdered
the argument of HERHIM and HALF and explanations and theories of the murders
I thought this was truly hilarious!! i could'nt help but notice all the references to pop culture. how the critics try to discredit each other with below the belt(ha) comments.it reminds me of
Neon Genesis Evangelion... How people from all walk of like spend hours and hours researching the manga and anime just to prove there ideas(which i may add are very far fetched in most cases.
Througout the reading i fould several quotes that had me rolling:
"all this technological intervention—the drug therapy, the cosmetic operations, the violent sex-reassignment surgery itself—is a hybrid woman-machine or seductive technosexual cyborg."
"otherwise-dickless alien appears to relieve himself in the bushes (thee pee there) with a steaming stream of vinegar; super slow motion shows the corrosive effects on the foliage. Household vinegar has a pH of 3.0 (three), versus normal human urine (4.6 to 8.0)."
"With black humor some noted that tech support was more successful in recovering their computer files than were the trauma doctors in reviving the critics."
the reading technique i used for this site was......clicking everything!! It may be cause by Twelve blue or Christian Shaw. but i constantly have a feeling that i may miss something..... I started by reading the poem...(raises one eyebrow)Clicked around, read something about a murder, but the quote of hyperlink g Hierarchical Electronic Recombinating Hypertext Interactive Matrix (HER/HIM), brought to you by yours truly at HerHim.org." made me wonder were did they come up with Euan Mcgreggor?
Richards and Allman.....It would be a little romantic if it were a double suicide(after all the reticule they had to suffer for their careers, they wanted to end it all together) and i can"t think of a reason that All-man(yet a woman) could possibly kill Richards.
English pedagogy and rhetoric is a must to desyfer all the opinions thrown at the reader simultaneously. Also, a slight reference to pop culture does help with deeper understanding. I would definitely read this on my own... Because it was a parody in which i
"got it" made me enjoy it just a wee bit more....
this poem reminds me of something a friend told me in high school(he had a few poems of his published. "My poem 'ode to steak" is about my love of steak, that's all"
