touch
sworry
remove
memory
method
Jasmine
think
radio
Connecticut
Reach
contained
domesticity
children
here
wheel
boat
key
death
outside
the mere
tricks
late
imaginary
waits
eve
sequence
thumbnail
tease
mother
where
kept
Cleopatra
canal
four
daughter
played
don't
saints
once
tell
city
music
detail
syntactical
radiation
talk
healing
geode
Dresden
cellars
reach (rêch) verb
reached, reaching, reaches verb, transitive
1. To stretch out or put forth (a body part); extend: reached out an arm.
2. To touch or grasp by stretching out or extending: couldn't reach the shelf.
3. To arrive at; attain: reached a conclusion; reached their destination.
4. a. To succeed in getting in contact with or communicating with: They reached us by telephone. Our newsletter reaches a very specialized readership. b. To succeed in having an effect on: No one seems able to reach her anymore.
5. a. To extend as far as: The property reaches the shore. b. To project as far as: A distant cry reached our ears. c. To travel as far as: a long fly ball that reached the wall of the stadium.
6. To aggregate or amount to: Sales reached the thousands.
7. Informal. To grasp and hand over to another: Reach me the sugar.
verb, intransitive
1. To thrust out or extend something.
2. To try to grasp or touch something: reached for a book.
3. a. To have extension in space or time: a coat that reaches to the knee; shrubbery reaching up to the eaves; a career that reached over several decades. b. To be extensive in influence or effect.
4. To make an excessive effort, as in drawing a conclusion or making a joke; overreach.
5. Nautical. To sail with the wind abeam.
noun
1. The act or an instance of stretching or thrusting out.
2. The extent or distance something can reach.
3. a. Range of understanding; comprehension: a subject beyond my reach. b. Range or scope of influence or effect.
4. An expanse: a reach of prairie; the lower reaches of the food chain.
5. A pole connecting the rear axle of a vehicle with the front.
6. Nautical. The tack of a sailing vessel with the wind abeam.
7. The stretch of water visible between bends in a river or channel.
[Middle English rechen, from Old English ræcan.]
- reach-able adjective
- reach-er noun
The principle of composition here is topological. The first screen was laid out with successive spaces placed by chance and opportunity both. Clusters formed as spaces were added in openings suggested by the accumulations and proximate edges. The motive was something of a conversation both with the nearest edges and the emerging center alike. The links are ripples.
X links cross the span of the now gone storyspace which provided the compositional field. &links move forward in actual compositional time. <links move likewise but backward. Each page has indexical links to its neighboring clusters and in all other spaces after this one all text is linked as well.
Of course it isn't necessary to know any of this. You can simply click the list or a link and read as you like.
Michael Joyce
April 2000
