At the DAC 2000 Conference in Providence, RI, Anne Mangen presented an experiment using Xerox PARC's Fluid Reader to tell a simple children's tale. The book text had links, which would expand the story, inserting a few more details.
If I remember correctly, Mark commented in the discussion afterwards that this was just stretchtext (another concept coined by Ted Nelson), and we knew from years ago that stretchtext doesn't work for narrative.
I would love to know more about those experiences. It seems to me that the story-with-scenic-detours concept works brilliantly in one of my favourite websites, Becoming Human, which I have described before. In Becoming Human core documentary may be interrupted at several points for detours into hypertext "exhibitions", which in turn may be interrupted by in-depth text nodes.
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