The first page that I studied was one of the “introduction” pages with a four second refresh time entitled “Where you're going there are no maps.” Clicking the link Hello Chaos sent me to a conversation between a man and his wife, only noticing “What about those things you used to believe in? Fractals. Singularities. Surfing Chaos.” I took this quote from the text due to the fact of the cynical state that I was in and the chaotic and cynical Radiohead song “Videotape” playing at the time. Hello Chaos, led to clicking on the link, Chaosmos due to the fact they shared the same wording. Many writers constantly use the same words, especially in headlines or titles that attract their targeted consumers so as to sell more. That is modern economics and simple one way thinking i.e. American consumer theory and is shown in Chaosmos with “No big ideas wanted. Everything drastically reduced for quick sale.” Going with this mind set I chose other very similar links, based on the words used in the link itself and what I believed would be in the upcoming text. “Good news about the end of the world” is the first page of text that stood out to me above all others and I was drawn into the Overheated Medium link. “Television is a force of nature like locusts and ozone.” Comparing television, the overheated medium to locusts, a biblical punishment and a ravaging force that kills everything in its path and to the ever impending doom coming from the world's ozone layer, or lack thereof, was the first thing I noticed and drew a correlation to. The Into the Light link, from the same page went on to “the visitors bekoned him. They knelt beside the beveled frame and coaxed him along. He went into the light” which is a perfect correlation to the death felt from the locusts and ozone. Proceeding onward onto the next link, Alpha, the beginning, led onward to Doppelganger, which appealed to me because of the cynical view of seeing the world and the feeling that many people get when realizing the world came first, and that we are so small. “Move me no movements, theory no theories, don't try to change the world. It's a big world, it can change itself.” Moving along with the cynical and even more so depressing/self pity feeling that people can derive from the text and hearing the song “Arpeggi,” “These fragments aren't insured against my ruin” page caught my eye and Desert of the Real link was naturally chosen. In this small excerpt the reader is faced with a man and his loneliness. “Marshall drives with quiet dread into an American sunset which, as he has long suspected, was always there waiting for him.” There is no light at the end of the tunnel, there is the foreboding leaving light in the dead desert, symbolizing this man driving towards the darkness of his death. From this page Dissolute is chosen, meaning self-indulgence but also know as self-destruction. “We shimmered, we shook. We drank until the world threw up.” Notice that it can easily be mapped out what links I was going to choose depending on my mood. Even though several of the texts can be taken out of context they can still mean and be what the reader wants them to be. I always expected to read something relating to what I just read though it is same subject matter or how I felt the same after reading it. Granted not all of the links and hypertext being read are solely for the depressing or cynical symbolism like I have mentioned and constantly involve different analogs.

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