A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge. And if they are connected, then we might ask questions of art, that we are more used to asking of technology, of science. Reading involves the limiting of associations. The linkage that hypertext makes explicit has always been present in the mind of the reader.
Every sentence leads to possibilities, mitigated only by the move to the next line.
A simple geometry, in which the author's mind and the reader's mind never quite intersect. But hypertext forces into our face this difference in readings . The multidimensionality that once took place between reader and text now exists within the text itself. And yet, reading is still a function of limiting associations. Explicit or not, the near-infinitude of readings will appear to collapse into an observable system of meanings.