What follows is an exploration into hypertext by a writer with very strong
traditional roots. The exploration is a process that is still going on.
Before beginning, if you are new to hypertext, you may want to begin with
my essays called "What is Hypertext?" and
"The Humanities in Cyberspace," the latter
of which includes links to humanities resources on the Internet.
Traditional narrative forms:
Drama
My MFA degree is in playwriting. This
links to "Sad Laughter," a two-act play based on the life of Moliere.
Summary of
play. Download
play (files sadlau*.*) via ftp.
This is a recent short story appearing in
the May, 1994, issue of "Whirlwind" electronic magazine (at Cornell
University), called "The Epistemological Uncle."
Poetry
Traditional
sonnets
on the theme of love comprise the short book, "The Moods of Love."
This new form of theater also has been called "a living movie" or
"simultaneous-action
theater" and has been a passion of mine since I was commissioned to write
"Chateau de Mort" for the Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon, in 1986.
This links to a summary file from this play, plus background
information. Or download the play sampler
in hypertext (hypertxt.zip) via ftp. This is self-contained and runs on
DOS with the command GO.
I'm also involved in a collaborative
hypertext novel being developed on the Internet, called "Stories from
Downtown Anywhere." We welcome - indeed, urge - your contributions.
Hypertext poetry
The Cyberspace Sonnets
is a work in progress of reader interactive poetry, in which the reader
participates in the writing of a sonnet. (The experiment is so massive,
it likely has been abandoned.)
http://www.teleport.com/~cdeemer/index.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)