Structure versus random depth, versus depth based textual habitats

[studiojulienmchardy]

Why randomise? the depth provides a satisfyingly rigid structure to a liquid undertaking, i liked that.

Or would you have several texts that live in the same depths. That could work. That you define a particular depth in which particular kinds of texts live, and then you encounter some of them, randomly, at that depth. not bad.

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- The principle is that juxtaposition = narrative relationship - ideally it would be possible to randomise the items but barring that a sequence will be agreed based on the directional arc of the chapter (from the surface the the point where the light from the surface ends) - The epipelagic zone and the mesopelagic zone (sunlight and twilight)

[james-l-smith]

I think that there's an answer to this between two extremes. Randomisation isn't necessary when the components of the book are modular anyway. That way you can get the 'experience' of reading the book in order as a sequence/descent (also necessary for a monograph experience) but you could also make a depth-based curation of those documents.

There's a question here of how to order the 'menu view' of juncture (which reads the markdown files within a particular repository), which would also be amenable to custom CSS. For example https://lab.plant-humanities.org/ allows groupings of the essays. Can there be multiple gatherings of the section for different types of reading? For me this is the most exciting idea - create a flexible top level view that functions as a multi-functional table of contents.