Deferral

"In one sense, hypertext brings to the surface the resitance to closure, the infinite deferral of a single univocal 'meaning' in the text, concepts that are sometimes difficult to teach with print texts. At the same time, hypertext's potential resistance and deferral can overwhelm the reader--and even the writer--in an unnavigable tangle of nodes and links. But even if the navigation problem is successfully overcome (as it often is), . . . writers may discover that their sense of authority over the hypertext is also infinitely deferred, their voices insignificant. . . . [However], the uncertainty of hypertext is a necessary component of a possibly richer understanding" (Johndan Johnson-Eilola "Reading and Writing in Hypertext" 211).

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