Linking
The ability to link to multiple texts is what makes temporary texts possible. As Landow points out that hypertext linking
"disperses 'the' text into other texts. As an individual lexia loses its physical and intellectual separation from others when linked electronically to them, it finds itself dispersed into them. The necessary contextuality and intertextuality produced by situating individual reading units within a network of easily navigable pathways weaves texts, including those by different authors and those nonverbal media, tightly together" (Hypertext 53).As I see it, the World Wide Web is one text out of which readers can create a multitude of temporary texts by following pathways established through links.
Temporary Text
Limits of Print Texts
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