For Landow and Carlson, the most important aspect of hypertext design is integration, the assembly of parts into a meaningful whole.
Their prime directive is well expressed in E.M. Forster's famous injunction, "Only connect"—the "connections" in this case being hypertext links. Rhetorics of coherence or itinerary (arrival/departure) theorize hypertext as a network of terminated segments, each joined to another. Since every discursive unit necessarily connects, the system in all its heterogeneity constitutes a closed circuit. To bring in the metaphor of "topography" so common in electronic writing, the hypertextual network forms an enclosed territory, a hortus conclusis or "garden of forking paths" (see Bolter; Moulthrop).
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