In Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, Boris Urquhart ("U" for short) writes four different versions (or we read four different versions) of a letter to Emily Runbird, explaining why his mind isn't right, why he's paranoid, and trying to explain his feelings about her. Though the final lexia of each draft links the reader to a different thread, if the reader follows all of the drafts to their exhaustion, he/she discovers an endpoint to Boris's thoughts: "U seem in this moment to exist in more than one place and time." These letters do not produce clarity, or rather they do, but the clarity they produce contradicts Boris's reality. To the reader, who can choose to interpret any or all of the drafts he/she reads, the letters draw attention to that choice in reading. The reader knows he/she is outside of the text. Boris, on the other hand...