Counterpoint may be fine-grained. Because Greenheart, in Six Sex Scenes, works hard to avoid Cycles, the Counterpoint of childhood and adult experience is its most prominent structural element. Where Greenheart uses Counterpoint as a substitute for the structural power of the Cycle pattern, Larsen builds her hypertext from two interlocked Cycles. These cycles, inspired by a classic quilt pattern, represent self-reinforcing traumas of past and present. In Samplers, a list of links connecting two writing spaces becomes an interstitial voice in counterpoint to the main text.
Interstitial counterpoint adds hypertext commentary notionally situated between writing spaces.
The dialog is designed to be purely functional, showing a list of links by pathname and destination, but Larsen has chosen path names so that this list itself can be read as an interstitial poem. Inc. All Rights Reserved.