*Note About Notes

A unique node, the unattached space "Note about Notes," appears at the root level of the Notes directory only in the Windows version of Figurski at Findhorn on Acid. Is the author trying to "hide" this space? It is not linked to or from any other spaces, so readers will encounter it only if they navigate the narrative using one of the structural or map views (view windows), and it seems to violate the Figurski convention of dividing directories by threes/multiples of three.

The simplest explanation is that the Macintosh version (which we can now determine was created first) loads 354 total spaces, so this space is needed to show the same total in the Windows version. But since the texts and structures of the two versions are otherwise identical, something more mysterious must be at work in either the software or the operating systems. The Windows version of Storyspace proves more mathematically precise, in that the author has indeed created 353 nodes, other than this one, in both versions. But maybe the Mac, more imaginative or philosophical, considers the implicit space that holds all other spaces to be itself another space and counts that one too. Depending how you look at it, such an implicit meta-space -- a space of spaces, or a space about spaces -- would be free of content, or full of it.

-- Alan Richardson, "Notes about Note about Notes," footnote to "Metanarration in the Notes directory of Figurski," in Millennial Machinations, ed. Alexander Parritt (Fictitious Press, 2001)

[emphasis mine]