Aarseth's Concept of Cybertext

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Alfred L

 

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December 4, 2012

 

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Cybertext creates an imaginary world around the reader. Reader can take any path and depending on where he chose to go he encounters a different result at every stage and every step of the way. Aarseth differentiates between linear and non-linear text by using a very elaborate example: "Like a passenger on a train, he can study and interpret the shifting landscape, he may rest his eyes wherever he pleases, even release the emergency brake and step off, but he is not free to move the tracks in a different direction...
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[awkward sentence, clouds what you are saying] It can be better explained by taking an example of a "fork" path where the reader comes to a juncture where he has a choice to make as to which path to take as all paths go to different destinations compared to single path which is twisting and turning and on the way carries different adventures but there can only be one end...
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