When Boris Urquhart writes four different versions of his letter to Emily (in Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden), I am aware of the choices I make to see the multiple drafts of the letter. Each time I read the letter, I know that Boris always thinks lowly of Tate ("he misquotes Barthes to me" appears in each draft), but that Boris is never sure of his idea of Emily (which changes in every draft). Note that if I choose the default path from any but the last of these four letter-sequences, I switch to a completely different thread in the text. It is when I am an active reader that the text rewards me for my dogged reading of each draft. The repetition reveals more information about Boris, but never allows me to forget that I, the reader, choose when Boris is "done" revising his draft (i.e., when I think he is finished).