Repetition, although not exact, occurs throughout and was often derived from selectively deleted templates of previously typed pages. This might be described as an electronic palimpsest. Another important computer inspiration was linked frames, in which type flows from column to column.
Large type appears as borders at the top and bottom of the page.
In the interior in smaller type are linked frames-readable top and bottom, three columns across, or straight down and from bottom to top. The large type deals with problems and philosophical ideas that surround the story and affect the characters' lives. The frame, at a higher level of abstraction than the interior passages, provides a context for them. The non-linear story of one Senegalese woman's struggle for love, success and happiness in France is told in a mosaic of flashbacks with contemporaneous images and episodes. 3, No. 5, Summer, 1995.