The Harmless Yank Hobby

[David Casseres]

On 6/9/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My point is, the Internet simply does what we've
> always/already been doing, is, uh, all ..

Well, the internet does a very small part of what we've always done.
The article seemed to be claiming that hypertext links, as metaphor,
add something to our understanding of intertextuality.  They don't,
really.  The connections to Homer in the plays of Aeschylus are not
like hyperlinks; they are poetry.  Hyperlinks just identify a
connection; real literary intertextuality evokes the connected text
right in the present text.