We usually simulate space and courses, topography for hypertexts via maps.
Spacializing hypertext is invaluable and even inevitable, but it shouldn't make us forget that text can't be divorced from the temporality of reading. The ultimate "shape" of a hypertext is inextricably bound up in an individual process of interactive reading and decision-making, which occurs in the very dimension of time.
Time is the element that must be added to the raw configuration of nodes and links to produce a textual realization--a finished structure.
Time and changing must be taken into account in discussions of hypertext structure.
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