During the fall of 2004, the following
are guilty as charged of offering inspiration for what you are reading.
- Scott Rettberg's hypertext fiction The Meddlesome Passenger.
- Jorge Luis Borges' collection Labyrinths, especially The
Library Of Babel, The Immortal, and The Circular Ruins.
- The literary weblog Conversational Reading, which, beyond
generally getting me excited about literature, introduced me to the
work of Gilbert Sorrentino, referenced in the penultimate lexia.
- Jill/txt was a daily, still, source of inspiration.
A conversation with Jill in real life inspired a lexia.
- Grand Text Auto in general.
- Shelley Jackson's My Body a Wunderkammer, which made me cry more than
once and pushed me to be brave enough to write about sexuality issues.
- Of course, The Unknown Collective's The Unknown, which
greatly influenced how I both read and write hypertext, and my
aesthetic vision for hypertext fiction.
- Derik Badman's, who I met on a Buffy The Vampire Slayer
listserv, writing about constraints at the time I was writing War
Prayers inspired me to try to write three hundred word, exact, entries.
- Although offline, Rettberg and Nick Montfort's sticker
novel Implementation was paradoxically what made me create a blog to
document War Prayers. I had to get my words onto a screen
somewhere. I even created a few summary stickers, one of
which still is on a wall at The Richard Stockton College Of New Jersey
underneath an Implementation sticker.
