The increased freedom of movement through hypertexts is coupled with a limited perspective on each text, an inability to look ahead to what is coming next or even to how much of the text is yet unread.
While Hypertextual allows the reader to get a sense of the entire text through the use of a single page, movement through the text remains mostly blind; the reader knows that one link will lead to another consisting of the same sequence of letters, but not where that link will be relative to the starting point both in terms of temporal placement on the page and of poetic context.
