Hypertext theorists frequently employ spatial imagery to describe the relations made possible by links and textrons: maps, three-dimensionality, textual landscapes, navigation, topography, and the like. This rhetoric fails to hide the fact that the main feature of hypertext is discontinuity--the jump--the sudden displacement of the user's position in the text." Aarseth
Or perhaps, the skip.
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