J. Yellowlees Douglas' I Have Said Nothing: a live e-lit traversal

Thank you everyone for a fabulous pathfinder today. Especially Yellowlees, Phillipe, and Dene. #elitpathfinders

Here is another version of the Augustine source material.  https://archive.org/details/onchristiandoctr00augu … De Doctrina 1.6.6 #ElitPathfinders

Thank you all for the excellent questions this afternoon. #elitpathfinders

The final lexia is “The End” and reads: “That’s all she wrote.” #elitpathfinders

Here is a link to the portion of I Have Said Nothing available on Norton's site.  http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/pmaf/hypertext/ihsn/i_have_said_nothing.html … #elitpathfinders

Really nice to hear a reading and discussion of my work, "I Have Said Nothing," short fiction later published in the Norton Anthology in 1997 via Dene Grigar's #elitpathfinders today. #hypertextfiction

Setting: The story takes place in Michigan in contemporary time Allusion: There is a lot of film allusion: The Wild Bunch, Psycho, horror films we watched as children, Esther Williams numbers in her films, Warner Bros. cartoons, Deliverance. Theme: The main theme of the story is the notion of “nothingness,” of death, of the aught. The blank space that shows up before the ending lexia is entitled “.” A period. The punctuation for the end of a statement of fact. #elitpathfinders

Uses of the title: I found the first use of the title suggested in the lexia, entitled “Why”: “But I say nothing.” This is the narrator’s response to Luke’s question about why two girlfriends had died. “And, in the end, you say nothing” (from 0 with a line through it, lexia). She cites St. Augustine (erroneously): “I have done nothing but wish to speak: if I have spoken, I have not said what I wished to say” (“But I’ve Said Nothing) #elitpathfinders

She used an early portable Mac, the “luggable” as Stuart Moulthrop called it. #elitpathfinders

In the story we meet four main characters, some of whom are dead or die in car crashes in the course of the story. #elitpathfinders

Douglas wrote “I Have Said Nothing” very quickly in two days, including the nodes and links while she was living in Brighton in the UK. #elitpathfinders

Yellowlees is surname of her great grandmother. She goes by Yellowlees, or even Jane ever though J is actually her first name. #elitpathfinders

She received her first copy of Storyspace from Jay David Bolter. It was a beta version of the work. Douglas has moved back in NYC after living in Florida. In the past she taught in business and medical schools as well as English. #elitpathfinders

About the Author J Yellowlees Douglas taught at NYU along with John McDaid in 1985. #elitpathfinders

Our reading is being performed by Dr. Philippe Brand of Lewis & Clark College. #elitpathfinders

Philippe Brand asks is there a linear path to read J. Yellowlees Douglas’ "I Have Said Nothing" or are we condemned to sort our way through the fragments? #elitpathfinders

The main theme of the story is the notion of “nothingness,” of death, of the aught. The blank space that shows up before the ending lexis is entitled “.” A period. The punctuation for the end of a statement of fact. #elitpathfinders

4. Juliet (or “Jule”) is Luke’s new girlfriend one year after Sherry dies. She also dies in a car accident involving a Ford Probe (See: “Nada”). In real life this girlfriend of Mark’s lives after her accident. Sherry and Jule are named after “consumables.” #elitpathfinders

3: The Narrator is a fiction writer. #elitpathfinders

2. Luke is based on Jane’s brother, Mark. We learn from the Narrator that Luke collects girlfriends and reptilian pets. He lives in North Hollywood, which may explain the many film allusions. Douglas chose the name Luke because it was another apostle name. #elitpathfinders

1. Sherry is the girlfriend of the narrator’s brother, Luke. We learn from the Narrator that Sherry and Luke have a drinking problem and that Sherry was killed by a car, a Chevy Nova going 75 miles an hour. Sherry is based on her brother’s girlfriend who indeed died in the same way. #elitpathfinders

It was actually the first publication of The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, but interestingly, it is numbered “2” because the work slated for number 1 was not available. #elitpathfinders

In the story we meet four main characters, some of whom are dead or die in car crashes in the course of the story. #elitpathfinders

"How we spend our days, mistaking patterns for order." J. Yellowlees Douglas from I Have Said Nothing. #elitpathfinders

It contains 96 places and 205 links. 271K size, running on Macintosh 6.07-7.6. Douglas writes in her introductory essay, “The Quick and The Dirty,” that the work was “built around finding an abstract shape that could act as a schematic guide to the relationship between narrative segments” (3). #elitpathfinders

Cool Fact: It was actually the first publication of The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext but is numbered “2” because the work slated for number 1 was not available. It is bundled with Mary-Kim Arnold’s “Lust,” another work we are featuring at our Live Stream Traversal, set for February 23 #elitpathfinders

It was published in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, Number 2 Winter 1994 but copyrighted in 1993, the year before Eastgate published it. The CD ROM was released in 1998. #elitpathfinders

Douglas wrote “I Have Said Nothing” very quickly in two days, including the nodes and links while she was living in Brighton in the UK. #elitpathfinders

J. Yellowlees Douglas, I Have Said Nothing is a hypertext narrative. #elitpathfinders

Welcome everyone, we are 3 minutes to broadcast. Please join us at  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzeZQ05p_1Tli0lDBeWMxOA … for the live traversal.

Please join us today between 12pm and 2pm PDT for a live traversal of Jane Yellowlees Douglas' I Have Said Nothing.  http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2017/11/22/live-stream-traversal-of-douglas-i-have-said-nothing/ …