Reagan Library
Reagan Library is an odd mixture of stories and images, voices and places, crimes and punishments, connections and disruptions, signals on, noises off, failures of memory, and acts of reconstruction. It goes into some places not customary for "writing." I think of it as a space probe. I have no idea what you'll think.
(Source: Author's description from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1)
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The piece seems to become more and more confusing as the writing continues. Demonstrates certain aspects of the writings becoming more incoherent, showing older graphic pictures of areas that seem lost, and bizarre, regarding the context of Reagan Library. The texts describe certain scenarios as well such as the Doctor asking what appears to be a patient to perform tasks involving one of the graphics, the piece goes on from the doctor's narration of the person's ability to perform the given tasks involving the image.
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Some of the innovations of Reagan Library are immediately apparent in the combination of navigable Myst-like landscapes with linked texts. Others can only be read through repeated encounters with the four fictional systems of text that correspond to four "worlds." Mingling instructions, stories, and "nonsense" texts (which can be eliminated by re-visiting and re-reading), Reagan Library is a meditation on forgetting and loss in which text and image work together interactively in an intricate and compelling way.
(Source: Editorial description, Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1)
What if I were to ask you in intimate detail about the way your eyeballs move, or what muscles you use when you swallow, or how the air goes in and out of your lungs?
This is your brain off drugs. Are you with me, doctor?
Churning and churning in the thickening mire. Please disregard. Will this ever make sense?
Are we reading yet?
What don't you understand? Stolidity silently contemplates the ramifying hours. Had this been a virtual emergency you would have been.
