Endnotes:

So where does Brian end and I begin? Where do I end and you begin for that matter? Just as you painted a picture of the players involved in these gruesome murders, so you have with me too. Does it matter that I go to an Ivy league school or that I have never been to Washington, or held a real gun? Would it change anything if I told you that many of the journal entries are modified from my personal journal? When Brian's picture was flashed on the computer screen was it the cold blooded killer that you expected? Did it do anything when you read the poem by a different author about the same crime? Did the pictures change your impressions? What did it do to you to hear both sides of the story? These are questions that we should all be asking ourselves when we read anything. Rather than accepting the cannon as truth we shoud be questioning everything. There are no absolutes. Somehow a part of a story is lost when it becomes recorded on a paper in text. It gains an absoluteness that is imagined. We must remember this when reading not only novels, but in reading the newspaper as well. It is just one person's interpretation of a story. HIS words, not THE words. Think of The NewYork Times for example. People, at least the scholarly, turn to this paper for the news. They take it as fact. If I were to look back at the days events on November 11, 1977 (my birth date), I would turn to a microfiche copy of that day's paper and glance over the front page. Whatever editor decided what was worthy of front page news on that day, determined the history for that date. These human decisions affected by personal beliefs and experiences, somehow get accepted as gospel solely through of the print medium. What hypertext allows for, and what I intended to be the main point of this work, is to point out that THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES!!!! QUESTION EVERYTHING AND CONSIDER ALL VIEWPOINTS!!! As much as this piece may have grabbed your emotions, consider that events from the story, journal entries, these are all things that I lifted directly from MY life. Consider that this is my first effort at a work of hypertext fiction, If I was able to get you to believe, to feel, consider what a master at the craft of Hypertext fiction would be able to do to you. There is power in words. That's all I have to say. Class dismissed. Now something to ponder...




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