Okay, I'm not proud to admit that I had to play with this site for a bit before figuring out exactly what was going on. "Is it trying to make sense?" I asked myself. "Will it make sense in a certain way? Can I make it unfold that way?" The answer? It does make sense, if you've already read the story. Because while at first glance, this site has The Garden of Forking Paths reading as "incoherant" (just as Tsun describes his grand grandfather's novel in the story) but you come to see that through different screens, it splits the story into many different sequences, orders, and outcomes. Just as the book within the story did. This site is maze or labyrinth of the story, created from many different chunks of text, and if the reader can get through, the big picture will click. Just like an actual labyrinth, when you become too lost, you have to stop and start over at the beginning all over again. Many times while exploring this site I had to click back to the home page (always available as a "back key", at times I even forgot for a moment and thought I was clicking to the previous page as I think the designer wanted us to") and start over again, trying to figure out if the same choices would take me to the same places or if it would just keep changing, over and over and over again.
My only suggestions? I'd like to have seen a map of the ENTIRE site, so that I could have read the story in it's entirety if I had wanted to. Because if you stumble upon this site without knowing the whole story, the meaning is somewhat useless.
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