Hypertext inevitably includes a far higher percentage of nonverbal information than does print; the comparative ease with which such material can be appended encourages its inclusion. Hypertext, in other words, implements Derridaís call for a new form of hieroglyphic writing that can avoid some of the problems implicit and therefore inevitable in Western writing systems and their printed versions. Derrida argues for the inclusion of pictographic elements in writing as a means of escaping the constraints of linearity. (Landow 59)
