Is it possible to be lyrically direct?

Adrian Miles in Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection numbers a section of the paper 6 and this section corresponds to a discussion of the concept of closure and this section numbered 6 is labelled Closure (II). The sequence of the conjuctions in the last sentence of this section provide an interesting pattern.

( or   or)  AND  (and  or  and)

Miles writes:

Links can be open or closed to the extent that they originate from abstract terms or narrative cognates (see for instance [33], and in terms of their destination, whcih can be similarly lyrical and associative [39] or direct and literal.

A reader may begin with a one-to-one mapping. "Open" can be read as originating from "abstract terms". "Closed" can be read as originating from "narrative cognates". A chiasmic possibility arises where the closed is aligned with abstract terms and narrative cognates lead to openness.

Likewise the links between the lyrical, literal, direct and associative can be sketched as crossing lines.

Hypertextual braiding sustains a node less as a knot than as an intersection.

Adrian Miles
"Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection"
Journal of Digital Information 2:3 2002
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i03/Miles/

[33] refers to
F. J. Richard (1998)
"Stalking the Paratext: Speculations on Hypertext Links as a Second Order Text"
cited by Miles

[39] refers to
S.P. Tosca (1999)
"The Lyrical Quality of Links"
cited by Miles