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THE INTERNET AS A TOOL :computer: :hammer_and_wrench: in The…

- - - - A way to Communicate & Create :pen::hammer_and_wrench: #
        
        Taking famous stories and adding and revising them
        
        EX: Guinevere & Lancelot story reclaiming
        
        The job of the narrator, writing fictional stories for others
        
        "'Come on, this is your job. You say you write stories. Write me a story.'" (Terrible things to do to a flower)
        
        "This is where your story starts. Here, in these long lines of laptop DNA. Here we take your chromosomes, twenty three pairs, and alter your height, eyes, teeth, sex. This is an invented world." (pg. 20)
        
        lower case chapters: narrator at compuuter
        uppercase: fictional stories that are created
      - A way to "travel" :world_map: :hammer_and_wrench:
        
        Though not physically traveling #
        
        “I keep telling this story-- different people, different places, different times-- but always me, always me, always this story, because a story is a tightrope between two worlds.”
        
        "I can't take my body through space and time, but I can send my mind, and use the stories, written and unwritten, to tumble me out in a place not yet existing--my future" pg 49
        
        travel through time or place
        
        “I was happy with the lightness of being in a foreign city and the relief from identity it brings” (52) EX: stories in Paris
      - A way to navigate identities :silhouettes: #:hammer_and_wrench:
        
        "'Freedom for just one night, you said."" (pg. 3) #
        
        "When I sit at my computer, I accept that the virtual worlds I find there parallel my own. I talk to people whose identity I cannot prove." (VIEW)
        
        “A stranger is a safe place, you can tell a stranger anything.” pg. 62
        
        Blurring of gender lines, exploring sexuality
        
        switching pronouns
        
        Tulip body parts