Clear and concise writing is extremely important to a hypertext no matter what the
content is.  Most people skim when they read pages that are from the web.  Skimming
can be very difficult if the writing is either heavy or wordy.  If the reader has a hard time
understanding or spends to much time reading through things that make no real impact
then they will move on to another web page.  The writing has to be interesting in some
way.  It has to capture and keep their attention.  The web has so much on it that is so
easy to access that if a page isn't worth staying on then it is easy to just look elsewhere
for something interesting.

The Hypertext Hegirascope does this to a certain extent.  Sometimes you don't get a
chance to get an entire page read before it goes on.  There are also parts of it that are
not that easy to understand.  The writing has its place and its point, but it is directed at
a certain kind of reader.  I think that it is interesting enough to get people into it, but
the average reader might not stay to long.

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