So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
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The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.
Now, I personally enjoy a really good footnote.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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