It didn't, of course.


For a while I played with the possibility of actually ending this column at that point, continuing it not in a new paragraph on that same page, but instead via this link. It was a cute idea, and definitely hypertextual, but it was a little too cute. As much as I like being playful with hypertext, I'm well aware that its use can become a rather juvenile game. The purpose of this column, after all, isn't to demonstrate the possibilities of multiple endings, but to give at least tentative answers to the question of why not uploading a column on some insignificant corner of cyberspace makes me feel as though I'm committing an offense to the ethos of the web.


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