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This essay was originally published (and is freely available) in the Journal of Digital Information, Volume 1, Issue 7, (December 2000), and is reproduced here with permission.
Bernstein's patterns, for instance, pay little attention to link source in the determination of syntagmatic series. However it is clear that link source plays a fundamental role to the context of any particular pattern.
For example Joyce's cycle could as easily describe the experience of using the Internet Movie Database, as Afternoon: a story, yet clearly in each case the effect of the cycle is radically different. Similarly a tangle could describe Simpson's Memex project, parts of Amerika's Grammatron, or Miles' 1996 Hyperweb, yet each are fundamentally different hypertexts.
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