SOURCE: Scholes, Robert. “Playing with the Cries.” Samuel Beckett Today 7 (1998): 379-90.

In the following essay, Scholes approaches “First Love” as a hypertext and recommends that the reader explore links found in the story.

There is a page on the World Wide Web called “Play It Again, Sam”. If you should visit that page, you will find a sold black background, with the words “I Can't Go On” written there. If you click on those underlined words, you will find yourself on another black page, on which the words “I Must Go On” appear. A click there and you are back to the black page with “I Can't Go On” inscribed thereon. You can continue this as long as you wish. Play it again, Sam, indeed. The URL for the first page, for those interested in experiencing this phenomenon, is

‹http://www.soros.org/kfish/gogo.html›

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