The House that Jack Built in Nicholas Friesner's Web-Based Stretch-text

[Nicholas Friesner '05, Brown University, created the Javascript that produces this version of stretchtext. Clicking on bold tags will open the text. Clicking again on the bold text or on the open text will close that section of text.]

This is the
malt
that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the
rat
that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the
dog
That worried the cat,
That ate the rat,
That ate the malt,
That lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the
cow with the crumpled horn,

That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That ate the rat,
That ate the malt,
That lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the
maiden all forlorn,

That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That ate the rat,
That ate the malt,
That lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the man all tatterd and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the Preist all shaven and shorn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the Preist all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tatterd and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the hosue that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the Preist all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tatterd and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
critical theory.
In fact, some of the most exciting
student projects
in
Intermedia,
, the pioneering read-write networked hypermedia environment created at Brown University's Institution for Research in Infiormation and Scholarship (IRIS),
Storyspace, html, and Flash and published examples of hypermedia
take the form of testing, applying, or critiquing specific points of theory, including notions of the
author,
- thus Lars Hubrich's Killing Me explores various effects of our notions of authorship by comparing how a friend of his reacted to a piece of music both when he didn't knew who wrote it and when he did -
text,
- and Pearl Forss's What Is an Author acts an experiment contrasting reader's reactions to moving text versus reader-centered hypertext -
and
multivocality.
- which Jeff pack's Growing up Digerate uses to organize reader-centered hypertext -
As J. David Bolter points out in the course of explaining that hypertextuality embodies poststructuralist conceptions of the open text, "what is unnatural in print becomes natural in the electronic medium and will soon no longer need saying at all, because it can be shown" (143).


Cyberspace Web Hypertext Systems