Another analysis

Lies, by Richard Pryll, is a text-only, «fixed content, single point of view story» and is accurately described by the WEB HYPERFICTION READING LIST as «deceptively simple.» The starting page is brief, fixed, and, like each subsequent link, allows the reader only two choices: «Truth» or «Lies.» Pryll has consciously crafted each link to be short enough such that the reader does not need to scroll, which as he suggests partially compensates for the inability to curl up with a good PowerMac with the instant gratification of point and click. Each reading takes less than ten minutes and within three or four readings, one begins to get the sense of the richness of possible interpretations and perspectives. Because it is easy to navigate to one of the story’s ends quickly and because of the simplicity of choices, it is easy to form a first impression of «Lies» as a fun, but insubstantial experience in HyperFiction. Even the premise, a man and a woman meeting and enduring a relationship complicated by infidelity, lies, and half-truths is somewhat sophomoric; still, «Lies» works very well as a quick introduction to the different possibilities available through hypertext.

Pryll makes use of devices such as using pronouns instead of proper nouns and re-defining words and phrases which effectively illustrate many of the possibilities available in Hypertext fiction that are impossible, or at least prohibitively difficult in traditional, print fiction. Though the constituent links of «Lies» are fixed — there are a number of possible endings — following different choices creates dramatically different perceptions for the reader; as Pryll states and Lies demonstrates, «HyperFiction provides an excellent means of expressing stories that have many levels, plots within plots, motives within motives.»

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