Lyotard Auto-Differend Page is a technical experiment and a theoretical allegory . T echnically, the page is an attempt to improvise a grammar of client-pull constructs or universes.
Time is what interferes with the reception of a long page or large image.
But in a client-pull universe, time is a player in the game. Hypertext means linking not static pages but whole text tracks that can fork, reduplicate, and interweave. T heoretically, this page is an allegory that tenses the client-pull form against Lyotard's philosophy, thus testing each against the other. In which case, as my friend Victoria Vesna suggested to me, the page can best be made livable by being played in the background like music or wallpaper while one is busy doing something else. The question whether it is possible to build surprise into a client-pull universe, which here symbolizes the discourse of postmodern culture, is still open.