English 250 Class Blog

Here’s a lovely little history of interactive fiction.

I didn’t want to spoil the surprise on my own blog, but I will explain what’s going on here. The “blonde joke” is that there isn’t any content, only structure: strings of hypertext links that only go to more hypertext links. So not only can fiction be hypertext, but a joke can be hypertext and non-conventional as well. (Jacqui)

http://experts.uchicago.edu/photos/nussbaum_martha_print.jpg
This is a digitized photograph of Martha Nussbaum, downloaded from her web site at the University of Chicago, where she is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics.

Plato argues in the Phaedrus that written words are detached from their authors, of whom the reader therefore cannot ask questions. Does the internet begin to take care of Plato’s problem, allowing us both to see and to question the author of “Interlude”?

Ryan Eckles