Stich Bitch

Hyper-text. Shelley Jackson wrote "The Patchwork Girl" describing herself as a writer. I think she is not only describing herself, but writers in general. Jackson is talking about putting all the pieces together in order to see the entire creation. In the beginning, Jackson fights with herself and the reader about an impostor who claims to be the writer. The author tell the reader to know her as Shelley Shelley, or daughter of Mary Shelley. This is so weird. At the point I have no idea why she is using multiple personalities when her entire piece is signed Shelley Jackson. I would think this is one of those times where you are not supposed to trust the author. Next she moves on to talk about how the body is not a whole. She means that it is separated and not completely connected, because not every thing that the body does is known by every other part of the body. The next section has to do with everything happening at once, she uses examples like, "the way a vine will bend but a tree can fall down". I think her word choice, "simultaneous" is the best for describing what she is talking about. Like life and death all at once. She is creating these images to portray the idea that a hypertext shares all of the information it has with you at once. It provides links to its sources and contains footnotes that allows you to find all it's information and more within one text. She is describing that when you read a hypertext it is hard to make the distinction between important and useless. The text interweaves and creates a huge confusing blanket of information for the reader. She doesn't like this. Jackson goes onto describing writing and how it's confusing textually. In her section about Reality Fiction, she talks about how fiction lies, and reality may always sneak into the writing. In every section Jackson talks about how she is not what we thinks she is. She repeatedly claims falsehoods and points out trickery in the writing. References to doubting the truthful nature of an author are made in each piece of her writing, as she points out its faults. I think this is driving me insane, so I'm going to quickly share a few of these lines. It was not how they said it was. It's not all you think it is. I'm not what you think I am. It's not what it says it is.
Yeah, she's driving me crazy. She compares us to creating a monster. The entire piece has to be based on something else. Her larger story. The patchwork needs to be put together to create the whole.