Which reminds me ...

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And of course that bring up an additional reflection. Though this is probably true about any writing process, hypertextual writing allows me (and in this case perhaps even requires me) to continually collect my reflections. I often get the feeling that the writing of a column is a 24 hours a day, seven days a week, activity. Of course I do other things - eat, sleep, work, become exasperated with my children - but through all of this I'm constantly constructing this column, trying to get a handle on a thought, having a light bulb light up above my head as a passing thought takes shape into an almost fully developed idea. To a large extent, the metaphor of hypertext, and of course the organizing tool of hypertext (they obviously coexist, and even overlap) has to a large extent become a way for me to collect and organize my thoughts. It's almost as though an image of a thought suddenly appears typed out in blue and underlined in my mind, and I sense the manner in which an idea, until now detached and looking for a frame of reference, has become part of the total structure.

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