* <<H2B.1149>> Why I Like Ted
The thing that drew me to Ted's work is, I'm realizing as I read his
2002 Ph.D thesis, that he addresses directly the problems,
challenges, and the essential hazard of writing.
I've never been a writer of any consequence— I'm more-or-less
unpublished, for whatever that says— but I've always been drawn to
the challenge of writing; and, at every crack I've taken with any
seriousness I have been ultimately frustrated into resignation by
these problems:
- There are an infinity of ways to say the thing you want to say, and
- Every way you choose to say a thing must some leave aspects unsaid,
and
- To try to say it all is stultifying; you would be mad to try, you
will be made mad if you do, and the further you travel down that road
to madness, the more remote becomes the likelihood of anyone ever
following you.
*These* are the problems Ted seeks to wrangle with hypertext— and
this is why his work resonates with me, because these are *my*
problems, at a very deep and personal level.
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