conclusions ... intertextualities cannot be traced. They cannot even be mapped for long, as they are always in states of process, flux and motion. Video or computer graphics might represent/metaphorise these (inter)textual processes far more effectively than the comparatively limited medium of black words on paper. Undoubtedly multi-media electronic journal articles will greatly facilitate discussions about intertextuality, especially explorations of readerly intertextual productions that result from reading/viewing intertextually and inter-imagically across textual media.

Accompanying every debate about intertextuality, however, even those produced in multi-media formats, there will always be a vast repository of other intertextualities over which assemblers of material (inter)texts have no control: the unknown myriad virtual-intertextual-collages stored within every reader. Every reader's various notions of identity (and the ways in which those entities are evolving alongside the 'new technology (inter)textual revolution') will inevitably affect the assemblage of her/his intertextual realities.

And as it is said of the child in 'Imaginative Reading V', so it might be said of every reader ...

Diane Caney, 1998
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