A previous HypertextNOW applied a vocabulary of hypertext patterns to Rockett's New School , a work far in audience and intent from the literary hypertext that is the customary field for such analysis. Continuing this exploration, let us turn to ScruTiny in the Great Round by Tennessee Rice Dixon and Jim Gasperini. At the same time, though, the graphically-rich ScruTiny is also quite unlike the writerly hypertexts more familiar to hypertext analysis.
Text appears only briefly and incidentally amidst thousands of collage elements.
The collages move, animate, and respond to the reader's touch. In counterpoint , two voices alternate, interleaving themes or welding together theme and response. Counterpoint often gives a clear sense of structure, a resonance of call and response reminiscent at once of liturgy and of casual dialogue. The cycle that shapes the entire work find an echo in most of the collages, for circles and cycles appear frequently as iconic representations of the female. Mirrorworlds provide a parallel or intertextual narrative that adopts a different voice or contrasting perspective.