Slatin claims that in conventional texts, the engaged reader is constantly at work, reading the cues from a text's context issues, paragraph breaks, and on down to punctuation: in all, the "arrangement of the material." In hypertext, Slatin identifies, the burden of predictability as largely the writer's burden: "the freedom of movement and action available to the reader . . . means that the hypertext author has to make predictions as well: for the author, the difficulty at any given moment is to provide freedom of movement and interaction, while at the same time remaining able to predict where the reader/user will go next" (161). In this game of prediction, the author attempts to create multiple desires and satisfy them for the reader all at once. The "creation of desires," too, has long been discussed in theories of traditional text criticism. In CounterStatement, Kenneth Burke describes the form of a text as the "continual arousing and satisfying of desire" in the reader. For Burke, the writer uses the form of a text to keep the reader wanting to predict what will come next in the text. Marshall Alcorn jr., in Narcissism and the Literary Libido, characterizes the author's act of writing as a manifestation of her desire to be read--a desire fulfilled by the "otherness" of the reader--a narcissism. Likewise, the reader comes to a text with desires to "improve an image of the self by looking elsewhere for identification" (16). Alcorn cites Lacan in claiming that "If desire, as Lacan says, needs an other, then there is afundamental reciprocity linking the producer and consumer of literary productions. An author's desire is essentially an expression seeking to elicit and draw power from the desiring response of a reader" (20).