TPPM Barthelme: "The Do-It-Yourself Hypertextualist"

[Dave Monroe]

   "The do-it-yourself hypertextualist will get a
chance to browse and recombine, often with striking
results. Scattered about in here, for instance, are
half a dozen or so pieces that, taken together, define
a single vexed meditation upon the Watergate Affair of
the seventies, which could profitably be consulted by
future historians seeking to understand that Byzantine
daytime drama. This is assuming that Barthelme got it
by way of the Tube, right in the lateral geniculates
like the rest of us, in which case readers might then
also like to refer to 'And Now Let's Hear It for the
Ed Sullivan Show!' a good general rundown on Don. B.'s
viewing procedures, as well as evidence of the radiant
quality of his attention."

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_barthelme.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/barthelme.html


"The do-it-yourself hypertextualist"

See, e.g., ...

The Hyoer Text Project

http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/

The Emperor's New Clothes ... bibliography

http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/mia/mia_biblio.html

The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview

http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/

Hypertext

http://www.h-net.org/~clc/etext/hypertext.html

Hypertext - More Than Just a Goto Link

http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/rms/CS02.html

Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction

http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html

Hypertext Resources

http://www.eastgate.com/Hypertext.html

New Media Poetry, Hypertext, and Experimental
Literature Bibliography

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/newmediapoetry.html

Electronic Text: Selective Annotated Bibliography

http://mh.cla.umn.edu/ebib.html


"The Watergate Affair"

http://www.watergate.info/

http://www.time.com/time/newsfiles/watergate/

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/watergate.html

http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm


"that Byzantine daytime drama"

Main Entry: Byz·an·tine
Pronunciation: 'bi-z&n-"tEn, 'bI-, -"tIn; b&-'zan-",
bI-'
Function: adjective

[...]

4 often not capitalized a : of, relating to, or
characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious
manner of operation <a Byzantine power struggle> b :
intricately involved : LABYRINTHINE <rules of
Byzantine complexity>

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

"daytime drama" = soap opera ...


"right in the lateral geniculates"

Main Entry: lat·er·al
Pronunciation: 'la-t&-r&l also 'la-tr&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English laterale, from Latin
lateralis, from later-, latus side
1 : of or relating to the side
2 : situated on, directed toward, or coming from the
side ...

Main Entry: ge·nic·u·late
Pronunciation: j&-'ni-ky&-l&t
Variant(s): or ge·nic·u·lat·ed /-"lA-t&d/
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin geniculatus, from geniculum,
diminutive of genu knee -- more at KNEE
: bent abruptly at an angle like a bent knee

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary


"the Tube"

Cf. ...

Pynchon, Thomas.  Vineland.
   Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.


The Ed Sullivan Show (1948-71)

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/E/htmlE/edsullivans/edsullivans.htm

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1156/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show/


"the radiant quality of his attention"

Main Entry: ra·di·ant
Pronunciation: 'rA-dE-&nt
Function: adjective
1 a : radiating rays or reflecting beams of light b :
vividly bright and shining : GLOWING
2 : marked by or expressive of love, confidence, or
happiness <a radiant smile> ...

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary


		
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