Upon reading the title of this article, I was curious as to what it was going to be about. Stitch Bitch was a really intriguing read, but extremely confusing and awkward at the same time.
Her introduction was great. While reading it I was positively clueless while being thoroughly impressed at the same time. I knew it was going to be interesting after I couldn’t figure out if Shelley Jackson was real or imaginary.
Throughout the article, my brain felt like it was being twisted into knots and I was continuously thinking, “excuse me…what?” Her style of writing was difficult for me to process at first; however, I eventually understood the point she makes through this article.
She states, “Every work of art is an alternate ‘world’ with other rules, which threatens the alibi of naturalness our ordinary reality usually flaunts.”
Her text shows this quote completely – her work of writing is definitely an alternate world with rules that are seemingly unnatural. To grasp the concepts that she tries to prove through her writing, you have to understand the rules she makes in regards to this particular piece. The way I see it is that her writing has no rules, which is definitely not normal for most audiences to wrap their heads around and in turn makes it so complicated for people to understand. She used her writing the way she wanted to while simultaneously proving to the reader just what hypertext is all about.
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