or, put in reverse, the sanctity of your text box [and i want to, as I write this one sentence - reverse statement of this document's title - start to pump the "text box" characters with another synonym] to the hardware you're using to generate the language that becomes digitized into the display system you're seeing on screen…

Suddenly I'm in need of two documents! I've started one to express one idea, and now, I see in defining the relationship and attending to the function of these two connected things, I'm forking(?) off into another subject which is (and happens to be significantly) worthy of its own existence that rises to the level of "document" - and I begin to notice the lock-in (link to Lanier) style of constraints impinging on my expression, necessitating my own comportment to the anachronistic linear style set on the physical page, which harkens back to the horse cart width that dictated NASA's engineering of spaceships, meme…

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how to characterize this as a 'position' - I'm a hypertext-atomist? ridden with ellipsis, ellipses, parenthetical digressions and expansions? "true to brain"?