This is not to say that multiplicities in hypertext should always be taken as alternatives. The elements of a multiplicity may be taken as components . For the linear field as practiced by Robert Duncan, the continuation happened in a direction, onward in the poem. In a conjunctive cluster directionality is not onward but inward, toward an abstraction of the cluster as something in a fixed spot, a center, a locality. An arena in which acts occur on the text, perhaps in which the text itself acts.
Word objects that behave .
It is not a coincidence that the poetics of the 60s made a strong connection between fields and time sequences. Space replaces time. The field is a container. Fields can be combined by nesting them, or stacking them, or adjoining them, or doing the virtual equivalent of connecting them with wires. Fields combine in a network .