Letter to Linus
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A hypercube is a work of electronic fiction based on the structure of a cube. It comprises six pages, each of which links to four others. Letter to Linus uses the form of a hypercube to explore, through six points of view, the politics of electronic literature.
Letter to Linus combines prose and poetic language in a wide-ranging commentary on creative writing itself. It is structured both by the short lines on the six faces of the cube and the six boldface words that also form a kind of poetic refrain: cut, shut, blow, break, take, lock. The picture that emerges is of a struggle between creative potentiality and the juridical and economic forces that would regulate, patent, and encrypt language. - Electronic Literature Organization [http://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/gillespie_letter_to_linus.html]
With this poem, Gillespie has created a sleek machine made of words - one that is a delight to operate and read. The cube structure of this six node hypertext (seven, if you count the title page), uses the title verb for each node as a transition for the next node. This economically clever structure to link to the next four possible pages make the user's choice a meaningful one, and one that creates a logical flow between the pages. Its lines vary from Whitmanesque to Bernsteinesque in length and will leave you thinking about how we take language and poetry for granted. - February 4, 2012 by Leonardo Flores [http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=482]