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Figure 33. A Spatial Hypertext that Readers Perform: Don Bosco's Fast City. (Courtesy of Eastgate Systems.)have used the help system for Windows, and Robert Kendall and Ian M. Lyonswdte in Visual Basic. Many of those working in new media, as I suggestedabove, tend to produce genres that seem more like poetry than narrative.Take, for example, Fast City,Don Bosco's witty, combinatorial mosaic portraitof modern urban life, which he composed in Flash (Figure 33). Fast Cityappears in the online journal Tekka, and to read it the user downloads eitherthe Windows or Macintosh version, double dicks on its pink and gray icon,and watches the opening animation. First, to the sound of a drumbeat andsounds ofurban dissonance, giant Chinese characters and then the words"Fast City," which I assume refers to Singapore, overwhelm a black and graybackground, shrinking in size and settling at upper-screen right, next to theimage of a woman. Then the image of a blue PDA appears on the left andincreases in size until it occupies a little less than half of the screen, afterwhich six rows of ten "X's" snap into place accompanied by sound. Bosco'smosaic of modern urban lives takes the form of sirty lexias whose texts appearon the screen of the PDA. One can "play" the PDA, creating an assem-