The Turing Galaxy poetic of links? Machines of Text tree fiction inter-textual links network-culture switching MOOs recursion ... to much! Manifesto for all cases knowlegde structures hypertext-commonplace internet - embedded interfaces? imaginary library going
Constantly considering the effects and impressions of his writing experiment, Proust had already thought of an active role for his reader, who, as the user of his "literary machine", is automatically included in the literary communication process. He repeatedly encourages the reader to use the text (as a pair of glasses, a telescope, a microscope...) to establish connections and associations to his own memory and perceptive processes: "Actually, when he reads, every reader is only a reader of himself. The work of the author is thereby simply a kind of optical instrument, that the author offers the reader so that he might appreciate what he would perhaps otherwise not have been able to see in himself."
Proust, Marcel: Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit, Band XIII, p. 329, Frankfurt/Main 1957, Originaltitel: A la recherche du temps perdu, Paris 1920)