"My immediate reaction to “Stitch Bitch” was that Shelley Jackson is schizophrenic. She even says that “Hypertext is schizophrenic.”
We don’t think about things that are “understood,” things we can’t see but somehow insist are there. Like a “1” in front of an “X” in math.
Jackson knows (or knew) how to fool her readers, or so she says. I wonder if she is trying to fool us even now in reading this article.
She hopes for plagiarism, like Jonathan Lethem. She wants “piratic readers,” which is strange, until she explains: she doesn’t mind because she might steal back her ideas in the future.
Jackson is pessimistic, cynical, a realist. She sees things for what they truly are: “your reader will just stop reading.” She also realizes that what we think is there may not be.
She doesn’t like flowery words, like Mark Twain. This suits her personality—she’s very forward and blunt. If I met Jackson on the street, I’d probably think she was insane, but still it’d be interesting. She’s obviously very intelligent.
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