If hypertext is a virtual landscape, we should consider the effect that time has upon topographical features.
No matter how solid they may seem, they are inexorably altered through processes of erosion and accretion. This is true whether the landscape is one of rock and soil or of words. Textual topography is formed in the reader's mind, where much of the textual content seems to erode as it fades in memory. Yet at the same time, new significance can accrete to many remembered passages as further reading sheds new light on them. The relationships that comprise topographical contours in hypertext thus change gradually during the reading in often subtle ways.
Robert Kendall - - Time. The final frontier
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