Mark Bernstein is always interesting on the subject of hypertext. In this essay, Hypertext Narrative and Baseball, he makes observations on the relationship between baseball and certain structural elements of hypertext:
To watch baseball well demands an eye for montage, for many things are always happening or about to happen. The pitcher eyes the runner leading off first, the runner edges away, the shortstop or the second baseman cheats toward second. The pitcher snaps a throw to first, the runner dives back, the third baseman moves to back up the return throw. Each move is scripted, each assignment rehearsed, yet each is almost infinitely variable. Montage, too, governs the sense of history that pervades the game. As we watch Troy OLeary grab the rebound off Fenways left-field wall and peg to second, we also see the shades of Greenwell, Rice, Yazstremski, and Ted Williams. Sitting in the bleachers — the same bleachers from which Updike saw The Kids farewell home run — we turn to a nearby stranger and nod: not bad, not Yaz of course, but not too shabby.
This also reminds me that the Storyspace environment is itself a montage.