Plan for Story

27May07

Last semester, I began a hypertext project that intermixed five sections of reading: one set of poetry, two narratives, and two theoretical/historical texts. I began linking across the separate texts trying to create reading through the form, not just the content. I didn’t finish this project and feel it could be pushed further in this [...]

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The Internet

12May07

Read this amazing rhetorical analysis of language and Internet pictures/comics. I was thinking last night about how jokes and comics are essentially miniature narrative–complete, compact. Jokes have every component of narrative packed into as few words or images as possible. I find that I am always fascinated by how language gets used and how language [...]

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Introduction

12May07

My name is Kristin and I am from Gainesville, Florida. I came to Orlando following my boyfriend of ten years. We live surrounded by woods and water in a cute apartment complex with our giant great dane, Sega. I like being around nature and getting surprised by the creatures that show up here (otters and [...]

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Define:

11May07

Caput Mortuum is a Latin term meaning ‘death’s head’. In alchemy, it signified a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation. Alchemists represented this residue with a stylized human skull, a literal death’s head. In its current limited usage, the caput mortuum represents decline and entropy.
Caput mortuum (also spelled caput mortum [...]

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