I found the introduction and “Body not Wole” part of this reading to be quite unusual, as I’ve never seen an author do this. It would appear that she starts to refer to herself in the third person and implies that there is more than just the Mary Shelley who wrote this. In the first section she makes observant points about functions our bodies carry out and how we do not seem to notice them which supports her statement that our bodies are never being fully experienced. I think she chooses to break the body down like that in order to show the even something as complex as the human body is made up of simple parts.
Jackson uses “Gaps, leaps” to compare hypertext to novels. She says the a novel is a very predictable yet satisfying experience but can get rather dull. She uses the section to explain that novels leave gaps that hypertext does not which gives a reader a reason why the reader should consider hypertext if they do not already.
The introduction is quite unusual, but I find that it introduces her contradictory style well. The important part comes when she mentions that she’s a “patchwork girl” which contributes to the validity of your “Body Not Whole” analysis above.
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