At Swim-Two-Birds undoubtedly possesses all the
characteristics of the World Wide Web. It suited perfectly to hypertext which is why it could be put on the
web without any major alterations. The novel was already cut into
"segments" so to speak, consequently the principal difficulty when working on the hypertext
version was to decide where each segments would go. Far from
diminishing the story, I think that the hyperlinkages transformed the
reading experience of the novel as they laid the emphasis on the great
number of intertwingling and interfering accidents that occur through
the narrative. Hypertext creates a whole new perspective for looking
at stories because it abolishes borders and chronology and it banishes structrure. But I think that an abundance of texts and links
risks too often to result in a chaotic mass of information, and thus cause
the reader to get completely lost. And so I disagree with Landow when he
says that readers always "fabricate their own structures, sequences,
and meanings, they have little trouble reading a story or reading
for a story", first because my reading experience of hypertext
fictions contradicts this statement, and secondly because I think that it
is impossible to do without some kind of structure.