Hypertext creates a new discourse that is not so
new if we place it in a dualistic context of teacher/student
and reader/writer. I think that the interactive reader Michael
Joyce invites into his hyperfiction, Afternoon, is very similar,
or at least parallel to the writing teachers experiences as a writing
teacher/reader. I dont hesitate to move a pen or cursor into any point
in a students text and comment. As Joyce explains in his book, Of
Two Minds, in the late age of print the topography of the text is subverted
and reading is design enacted. Thus, the choices a text presents depend
upon the complicity of the reader in creating and shaping meaning and narrative
(11). When the student receives his or her copy of our text, the writing (and then
my reading) continue in a design enacted loop stopped by the limits of school terms,
demanding learning loads, life situations, etc..