Thus, a novel can portray or represent competing ideologies without giving authority or privilege to any one of them. Nowhere is such a process better represented than in Ulysses , where the mythic representations serve as both parody and tribute. Joyce's refusal to make any conclusions, to offer any decisive resolutions about any of the character's activities, make Ulysses the perfect subject for hypertextualization. Indeed, Ulyses has been seen as a sort of hypertext itself, as a precursor foreshadowing the problems and challenges of cyberspace. Of course, the presence of links, as every web user knows, does not necessarily mean the presence of information.
Links mislead, misdirect, make trivial or irrelevant connections, or are simply dead.
File not Found. Ulysses speaks to us here, too. The book itself, that is, has reached us only by a devious path around Cyclopean censors and the Scylla and Charybdis of pirates and obtuse editors and publishers. But if we cannot achieve this, we can attempt the alternative of using the electronic world to guide us through Joyce's.