Quite an evocative experience. I liked how it was able to put me in a different state of mind reading it: the whole "run left/right" soon became disjointed from the actual actions I was doing and more about the mood I was looking for.

It was not very clear though what kind of overall story it wanted to tell. There seemed to be glimpses of a lot of interesting topics, but I guess the high number of optional parts of the story can make it difficult to catch them all.

I appreciate a piece that's all about the vibes. :) The whole experience made me think a lot about Invisible Cities, so was unsurprised to see that among in your literary references. You definitely matched that Italo Calvino style. Personally, I think writing in the notebook in the bookstore was my favorite bit; I really liked the short poem I composed there. Nice work!

-Anna

Sometimes works of art walk a very fine line between being profound and being pretentious. I do not know on which side, if indeed either, this errs. But there does seem to be a lot more of Joyce and Lutz here, than of Coleridge, Shelley, Yeats, Calvino, Borges, Le Guin and Crowther combined...

Oh that was beautiful. You definitely know how to write. I especially liked the little bits where we made out own poems - very similar to KRZ (that scene where you create the song that is actually sung as you make your choices? Poetry!), although perhaps lacking that je-ne-sais-quoi rural American Gothic vibe. Even so, this had plenty of its own vibes. Thank you for writing this.

This was beautiful, dizzying, and mesmerizing. I think it will stick in my mind for quite some time.

The poem takes me across locations. I'm moving from one to the next through the choices I'm making though I don't know what the options really are until or unless I choose them. It's a wandering, one that's aided by the style of writing; it's pretty intriguing. I occasionally got lost with some of the sentences though (it might be a lack of sleep, or maybe these dense parts are just not for me). By the time I got to Xanadu, locations were a blur, like I was on a train passing them by.  There are a few different themes, as described in the game's page;  I feel 'blink of an eye' theme is present in that when you're moved to another place it's a quick change, but a lot of other themes are also at play here.

"remember how it was"/"ponder how it is" is such a good choice. lots of interesting choices in this one, and it feels participatory. that bibliography is quite the addendum! really well done