Failed Mail (fwd)janus texts
Thomas Peter Lukas (tpl4q@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU)
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 17:34:56 -0400 (EDT)
> I think the people who did Janus Texts should get an A or a
> ride in the goodyear blimp or a chance to play whiffle ball
> with the pope. From the instant I met Mustaffa until completing
> this project I was captivated. The title page resembles print
> culture in a good way, then departs from print into a different
> kind of textual experience. Frisk Pant caused me to pull down
> the shades and go for the kitchen undersink cabinet in a way
> I haven't done since accompanying a nude maid to work one day
> many years ago. Kitten Silencers got me thinking about truning
> in my spokeshaves and grommets for a chance at atoids of
> nibblets, turquoise hemopheliacs notwithstanding.
> Palimpsest stands in a catagory of its own. It's not a poem,
> its a metaphor of a poem. I would suggest hooking it up to a
> dialogue box for credit-card numbers and making it into a
> poetry vending machine. But I guess in a sense it already is;
> it uses words as currency.
> Overall I think the design work works. It's clean and
> interesting as hypertext can be. It's mostly text based
> material, but I didn't experience the text drugery I often do
> when spending an equivilent amoutn of time scrolling pages or
> reading the usual html offerings.
> I hope they turn it into a serial. If they do I will FTP them
> A Bouquet of Groupers, a hypertext.poem about deepwater
> schooling.
> Tom Lukas
>