But one cell opens on another, a text cell contains windows that admit human voices, laments that float or explode from the sidewalk. Though the initial experience is discontinuous, the laments intruding as literal screen-object fragments, the poem does not preclude hearing the extended voice of an entire lament. A lament appears initially in single lines or stanzas, the reader returning to Upright City with a back-click. But these are parts of a whole separated by page-length breaks, and before returning the entire lament can be scrolled. The tessellated city admits interstices, where idea and act intersect.
Hypertext invites voices to interrupt the architecture and so interpret it.