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248HYPERTEXT 3.0 everyday physical world. He wants to create "an overlap experience in realtime of experiencing two places at once."He explains in his description of 34 North 118 West IhaLvoice actors read all writte narratives to create an overlap in real-time experience oftwo places at once. The only visual is the map that tracks one's movement and showshot spots and the distance readings on the C.P.S. unit... The key is the usage ofsound. Walking the city with sounds from different points in time and metaphoricalrelationships with what is being seen allows the authorto guide a fused experienceof critical analysis and creative writing.Like David Yun's Web-ba sed Subway Story, 34 North 118 Wsst uses a map of acity as an ovewiew that permits access to many narratives. The participantencounters the city plus a map superimposed upon it as an overview (or, inWorld Wide Web terms, a "sitemap"). In this narratively augmented physicalworld, "movement and reading," as Hight beautifully puts it, "brings a narrativeof what was unseen and what has been lost in time, only for it to quietagain once passed."One of Hight's most interesting points is that a "fictional narrative is anagitated space." Ever since Aristotle, students ofnarrative have understood thatit involves disequilibrium and disturbance, for the antagonist, whether person,place, or thing that blocks the main character, in essence creates the story. Withno obstacle there is no story. Instead of simply emphasizing the process-andhence the temporal, sequential aspect of narrative-Hight also conceives it inmore spatial terms. A story for him, is a storyworld; or perhaps one might saythat narrative requires a world within which to take place. Furthermore, hepoints out that a "city is also an agitated space" that exists as "data and sub-textto be read in the context of ethnography, history semiotics, architectural pattemsand forms, physical form and rhlthm, juxtaposition, city planning, landusage shifts and other ways of interpretation and analysis. The city patternscan be equated to the patterns within literature: repetition, sub-text shift,metaphor, cumulative resonances, emergence of layers, decay and growth."City spaces therefore provide an obvious way to reconfigure narrative, thusproviding a means of experiencing the words of earlier inhabitants, includingrailroad workers and Latina women who worked nearby in the 1940s. Hereare the fictional words, supposedly spoken in t946, of a man who workedthirfy-five years clearing the railroad tracks that ran through this space:Those men, along the rails, tired. Death by train we called it . . . lt was my job toassist...tohelp...kindwords...orhelpclearthetracksaftertheimpact...S