Most fictions are, like many jokes, also riddles and emphasize the missing parts.
Twilight Michael Joyce's Afternoon. A Story was arguably the first commercial literary hypertext. The long wait has finally ended, suitably at just about the tenth anniversary of Afternoon. A Symphony turns out to have been worth waiting for, and in many ways it marks clear development in the hypertextual fiction. What has not changed is Joyce's lyrical language and love of wordplay.