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	comments on page 7	The section on Carson McCullers is interesting to me, but although agree that literature challenges barriers I think the affordances and constraints of the facilities of the page do so in quite different ways that those of the screen. The quote you use got me thinking about the question of nations as borders and how these are reconfigured by the facilities of the internet. The boundaries we cross in travel and flight: the tickets and passports and literal barriers that we have to cross in order to establish the boundary of nation. by carey jewitt on 5/14/2003 at 10:24:34 Long before computer/internet, literature was challenging the barriers between here and there, now and then. Interestingly, this is an aspect of how our memory works. It is _very_ hard to make an absolute distinction between the memory of something that really happened and something you dreamt (other than the mental 'tag' that says it _did_ happen). Memory blurs the distinction between reality and dream. A good interface makes you forget that there is a transition layer (and process) between the reality of you and the virtual reality of the data you are experiencing trough it. by max bruinsma on 4/27/2003 at 08:35:13			+
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