For a reader to find the myriad of emotion wrapped so carefully, yet purposely, in narrative, the writer has made it so. And the reader has made it so, by interpreting the message. It is a two-way street with the writer acting as traffic cop. When the reader takes on the latter s role, the outcome is biased, most likely unskilled, empty and purposeless. It is the value of fiction as an art form that seems to be overlooked by Bolter.
Fiction is a construct.
If you write it, they will come. One could also argue that novels which are designed electronically with multiple hypertext links, meant to be read in a random, reader-directed fashion, are still controlled by the author because they too are essentially outlined by the author. He states further that hypertext has allowed computer graphics to infiltrate the Web rapidly and progressively, accelerating what the invention of photography, film and video began. Surely there is some intellectual interest left in the world for these art forms. Communication has got to be something more than simply looking at the pictures.