Reading a hypertext: These Waves of Girls

When reading “These Waves of Girls” it seems that one is not always in charge. The introduction itself has a pervasive and confusing effect, not allowing the reader to read anything, being exposed to a sound of giggling girls and a fluxing picture (presumably a series of waves or clouds). The introduction does, however, seem to do the job. Thus one eventually, if not immediately, sees a connection between the introduction of giggling girls (and the fluxing picture) and the plot itself moving into the story of actual giggling girls.

Similarly, the navigation of the story itself seems at times confusing (I did miss a few links once or twice). It is sometimes questionable from where to continue once a paragraph ends (I do not know whether I got it right yet). The text is consistently merged with pictures, a combination that repeats the fluxing (and confusing) introduction that perpetuates throughout the story. In spite of these observations the plot seems not only to backup the introduction, but also to prevail, as it is unfolded through the click of a mouse and the scroll of a finger, making one capable of selecting and deselecting pieces of the text.

The text thus has a coherent plot, whereas its navigation balances between informing the reader (giving her overview and privileges of selection and de-selection) and losing her in between the paragraphs (not knowing where to continue), if not having her confused by its flux of picture and its sound of giggly girls.