The heuristic of this is simply that I read screen after screen of a hypertext like Afternoon and think that the reader in me must be a writer to read--and that’s precisely how I teach writing to my students. When I read student texts (either paper after paper or screen after screen), I must be a writer to know what to say to my students, just as I must be a writer to read Joyce’s fictive text. When my students read, they try to capture what they need as writers to write, as well as learn to imagine themselves as writers because they are frequently reading the attempts of other writers.