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lt5The Borderless TextLinking changes the experience of text andauthorship by rendering the borders of atl textpermeabte:The lliadBy reifoing attusions, echoes, references, and soon, [inking(1) makes them material,(2) draws individuatexts experientia[[y ctosertogether.Consider, for exampte, a hypertext presentation(or"edition") of Milton's Paradise Lost.Invocati onsin Parodise LostBook of ExodusFigure 12. The Borderless Eledronic Textpoetic statements by others, and scholarly comment. Similarly, Miltonic citationsof the biblical text about the heel of man crushing the serpent's headand being in turn bruised by the serpent obviously link to the biblical passageand its traditional interpretations as well as to other literary allusions andscholarly comment on all these subjects. Hypertextlinking simply allows oneto speed up the usual process of making connections while providing ameans of graphing such transactions, if one can applythe word sirnplyto sucha radically transformative procedure.