Individuals learn of their world by assimilating these two distinct ways of knowing. This issue of JCMC is partly an experiment in knowledge structures, because the content is delivered in hypertext, a system of nodes and links.
Links create argument structures while nodes can contain complete, but related, stories.
In this piece, I have tried to be faithful to argument structure with links, but have occasionally reserved nodes for telling stories. Sometimes these nodes or sidebars are stimulated by phrases that capture marvelous and complete stories. When that happens, the node may devolve into language patterns of a less formal nature. My imagination is captured by language and syntax patterns and I want to offer the reader this option on occasion. This could be a good use of the medium, or it could merely be self-indulgent.