52. Nonlinearity and Literary Theory, Aarseth, 1994

• Obvious characteristics of electronic literature - issue of linearity.
• "this quality of nonlinearity is neither insisted upon by the computer nor precluded by print."
• Screens, by nature, create a sort of an "allure" that forced people to automatically put computer literature in its own category
• In reality, there are few differences between new media art and non-digital work
• "today's electronic textual systems are not so new when systems like the telegraph are considered."