Well, I was pretty bored in class today... and I've also had architecture on the brain lately. This website is sort of a decontextualized, inhabitable space based on one of the infinitely many structures embedded in the book of Revelations. The process of the site's creation (incarnate in a python script) works to warp the book from a dogmatic, cryptic, linear hallway to an engaging, potentially silly playspace. In addition, this experiment fits into the current popular fascination with information networks, which I certainly share.
The luminous yellow phrase at the top of each page (not counting this page or the introduction) reveals the path you have traveled so far. The title of the page reminds you which word you're currently at. You move through the space by following the little blue links on each page, which correspond to words that really came after the present word at least once in the Book of Revelations. Each time you choose a word, the links out of it are displayed in a random order so you don't follow the same old patterns again and again. As you follow the the hypertext, you can reach your own revelations, or ironic reinterpretations, or awesome non-sequiturs. Sometimes I find myself trying to steer the trail a certain way and being unable to, restricted by the strange logic of Revelations. But sometimes I click randomly only to chance upon some profoundish poem-thing. Who knows what you'll find? The possibilities are nearly endless.
To make the Hypertext Revelation, I downloaded a text file copy of the King James version of Revelations from Project Gutenberg and manually stripped off the header at the beginning and the license information at the end. The chapter and verse numbers remained, but I got rid of those later.
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